Ideas

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” - Aldous Huxley

They redirect people’s anger away from ruling classes, making them forget their economic exploitation

The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. Because the weak don’t come together and resist. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” - James Baldwin

“People whose power is real fulfill their obligations; people whose power is hollow insist on their claims.”

“Insight sees the insignificant. Strength knows how to yield.”

“Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter”

“Despise The Free Lunch”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” ― Dante Alighieri

Zeitgeist

Irrevocable judgement

“i pensieri stretti & il viso sciolto.”

If they can make you ask the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers

“Society is much more easily soothed than one’s own conscience.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”