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Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1) QUOTES

Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1) QUOTES

1 " The percentage of voters who, according to their best Information, would vote to change the entire system, or to threaten it by going to war. It’s a small but not insignificant coalition of haves who think they deserve to be have-mores; nationalists who consider some aspect of identity (ethnicity, religion, place if birth) more important than the government one chooses; and all-out cranks and contrarians. Maybe six to eight percent. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

2 " We know ‘vote for us and we will smite your enemies’ works. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

3 " nationalist governments tend to have trade difficulties. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

4 " We find that the people who hate each other that much rarely view the same type of Information. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

5 " you can give a voter Information, but you can’t make them think. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

6 " We want people to understand that they’re choosing a set of policies and principles, a way of life, not a person. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

7 " those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing and the inevitable distortions of time, what things were like before. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

8 " all the hullabaloo for people who barely even think about their votes. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

9 " There is nothing that suits us more than most of the world believing that their will is being carried out by governments that do exactly as they please. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

10 " Systems include their by-products; it all comes from the pattern of incentives they create. It’s how they make people think, how they make people behave. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

11 " The most important assets for the election systems are trust and routine. Both are badly damaged already; "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

12 " democracy is of limited usefulness when there are no good choices, or when the good choices become bad as soon as you’ve chosen them, or when all the Information access in the world can’t make people use it. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

13 " There was a study done with minimally educated voters who, given a hypothetical ballot, picked the names of famous serial killers over randomly generated names as well as over those of actual, less well-known politicians. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

14 " Then, with a flash of anger directed somewhere off in the direction of the streetlamp: “Why do people always expect you to trust them? With all the shit that goes on in this world, I don't know why anyone expects my trust just because they are unverifiably, according to themselves, a nice guy. Who the hell defaults to trust? "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

15 " Like most people, Mishima has a couple of favorite feeds, sources that she’s found to be fast and reliable, although she’s probably both pickier and a better judge of “reliable” than most people. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

16 " The whole point of micro-democracy was to allow people to choose their government wherever they were, but plenty of people didn’t agree with their 99,999 geographically closest friends. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

17 " Suzuki Todry sits down next to him
[an allusion to this?
Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
— Bertolt Brecht, “Mack the Knife,” 1928] "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

18 " When you watch TV, do you ever feel guilty about wasting your life?” a "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

19 " The new Heritage coalition of wealthy, experienced global corporates ignored the accessibility of Information, produced their standard glossy misinformation, and not only took the Supermajority but won centenals where, analysts agreed, it was demonstrably not in the interests of the people living there to vote for them. "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

20 " he would say impossible, but elections are rife with unexpected events— "

― Malka Ann Older , Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)