“So the future isn’t a boot stamping on a human face, forever. It’s a person in a beige business outfit advocating beige policies that nobody wants (but nobody can quite articulate a coherent alternative to) with a false mandate obtained by performing rituals of representative democracy that offer as much actual choice as a Stalinist one-party state. And resistance is futile, because if you succeed in overthrowing the beige dictatorship, you will become that which you opposed.”
— Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship - Charlie’s Diary (Charles Stross)
Feb. 11 2013
Via antipope.org
#politics #Charles Stross
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