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Freedom™ (Daemon, #2) QUOTES

Freedom™ (Daemon, #2) QUOTES

1 " Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

2 " Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

3 " Democracy requires active participation, and sooner or later someone ‘offers’ to take all the difficult decision-making away from you and your hectic life. But the darknet throws those decisions back onto you. It hard-codes democracy into the DNA of civilization. You upvote and downvote many times a day on things that directly affect your life and the lives of people around you—not just once every few years on things you haven’t got a chance in hell of affecting. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

4 " When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

5 " Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

6 " They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we’re making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

7 " It all seems so clear now. Corporate intrusion into public institutions. Corporate domination of culture and media. It happened in plain view, with us cheering on their success as if it reflected well on us. As if it was us. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

8 " We basically used oil and aquifer water to temporarily boost the carrying capacity of the land, all for economic growth demanded by Wall Street investors. It’s a crazy system that only makes sense when you foist all the costs onto taxpayers in the form of crop subsidies that benefit agribusiness, and defense spending to secure fossil fuels. We’re basically paying for corporations to seize control of the food supply and dictate to us the terms under which we live. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

9 " When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

10 " You taught me everything I need to know; self-reliance, self-respect, community. Just don't be surprised if I actually put it to use. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

11 " How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

12 " So what? So what if everyone cares? What does that do for us? The situation we’re in isn’t going to be solved by angry posts and best fucking wishes. Public outrage has never stopped these bastards. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

13 " Exactly. Democracy is a rare thing, Pete. You hear how democracies are all over the place, but it isn’t really true. They call it democracy. They use the vocabulary, the props, but it’s theater. What your Founding Fathers did was the real thing. But the problem with democracies is they’re hard to maintain. Especially in the face of high technology. How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

14 " Freedom is overrated. You can be completely free and starving in an igloo in Antarctica. Business is what makes people’s lives better, not democracy. The world is filled with dysfunctional democracies, paralyzed by idiots with votes. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

15 " She thought about it and nodded slightly. "Yes, the darknet economy was seeded by real world wealth. Wealth that was questionable in origin to begin with. Here, it’s being invested in people and projects that have begun to return value - not in dollars, but in things of intrinsic human worth. Energy, information, food, shelter. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

16 " That people will do whatever a computer screen tells them. I swear to god, you could run the next Holocaust from a fucking fast-food register. He pantomimed aiming a pistol. It says I should kill you now. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

17 " Just look at corn and soybeans, subsidized with taxpayer money—creating a market that wouldn’t otherwise make sense. Why? So agribusiness firms have cheap inputs to make processed food. The taxpayers are basically subsidizing corporations to make crap, when we could have grown real food on our own. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

18 " propaganda "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

19 " She smiled. “The first thing we do is stop planting corn.” “And plant what?” “What people need. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

20 " Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. "

― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)