As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, political purges often serve as jobs programs.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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The third Awokening was smaller and shorter than the others, stretching from the late ’80s to the early ’90s, and repurposing and popularizing the Marxist term political correctness. Its main legacy was to set the stage for the fourth—and present—Awokening, which has been fueled by what the scholar Peter Turchin has termed “elite overproduction.”
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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To say a situation is ‘lost’ or hopeless is in one sense equivalent to saying it is perfect, for in both cases efforts at improvement can bring no positive results.
― Mancur Olson
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