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“Kissy Kissy”, The Kills, Black Session, 10 June 2008.

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» The more we share, the more we will learn; the more we learn, the more we will know; and the more we know, the happier we will be. Facebook will also be happier, and progressively wealthier, and its advertisers will be both as well, so that in the end it may be impossible to tell sharing from spending, and community from commerce.

» What we think of as talent is actually a complicated combination of ability, opportunity and utterly arbitrary advantage.

» post-partisan harmony vs. the rule of law.

Isn’t it remarkable how many people they’ve been able to convince that their fate depends upon letting our political leaders break the law without consequences?

If the Government were to create the position of Brainwashing Czar — or Citizen Control Czar — and that person issued a report recommending that the Government try to inculcate the population into believing that it was for their own Good that political leaders were free to break the law and not be prosecuted, nobody would think it possible. Everyone would say: “oh not, not even the most potent brainwashing techniques, applied to the most mindless and subservient population, could ever convince them of that.”

And yet, right here in my very own comment section, you have one person after the next coming forth to say how all of the Important Things the New Leader has to do for them means that, for their own Good, the Old Leader and everyone who worked with him must be given carte blanche to commit crimes.

Really stunning.

- Glenn Greenwald (via jhn brssndn+unburyingthelead)