Le populisme ne dépend pas uniquement de ceux qui l’exploitent. Les systèmes de communication favorisent déjà les mécanismes qui amplifient la division, la défiance et l’instabilité politique.
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The madness of America is not an isolated national pathology. It reveals how communication synchronises ordinary human vulnerabilities, reproducing antagonism, institutional authority and collective irrationality.
Every attempt to secure one part of the world changes the conditions of security for everyone else. Endlessly.
Much of what capitalism conditions us to fear in communism is what concentrated capitalism already does: centralise power, narrow freedom, restrict opportunity and preserve poverty as structural necessity.
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the strange ontology of power
Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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irony age
Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.
