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Given that some of the big political visions of the twentieth century led us to Auschwitz, Hiroshima and the Great Leap Forward, maybe we are better off in the hands of petty-minded bureaucrats. Mixing godlike technology with megalomaniacal politics is a recipe for disaster. Many neo-liberal economists and political scientists argue that it is best to leave all the important decisions in the hands of the free market.
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Doch diese einseitige Fokussierung hat den Blick für das Wesentliche verstellt: die Erhaltung der großen Ökosysteme und der Artenvielfalt. Wenn Meere und Flüsse verseucht und Regenwälder abgeholzt sind, wird auch die Menge des Kohlendioxidausstoßes irrelevant sein.
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
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