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" It is hard for us, with our reductive (economic and rational) anthropology, to imagine that being can shrink or revolt because it has been given too much. If lack and servitude characterized earlier societies, opulence and free markets characterize our society, which has entered its terminal phase and is ready for intensive care.
We are not succumbing to oppression or exploitation, but to profusion and unconditional care - to the power of those who make sovereign decisions about our well-being. From there, revolt has a different meaning: it no longer targets the forbidden, but permissiveness, tolerance, excessive transparency - the Empire of Good. For better or worse.
Now you must fight against everything that wants to help you. "

Jean Baudrillard , The Agony of Power


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Jean Baudrillard quote : It is hard for us, with our reductive (economic and rational) anthropology, to imagine that being can shrink or revolt because it has been given too much. If lack and servitude characterized earlier societies, opulence and free markets characterize our society, which has entered its terminal phase and is ready for intensive care.<br />We are not succumbing to oppression or exploitation, but to profusion and unconditional care - to the power of those who make sovereign decisions about our well-being. From there, revolt has a different meaning: it no longer targets the forbidden, but permissiveness, tolerance, excessive transparency - the Empire of Good. For better or worse.<br />Now you must fight against everything that wants to help you.