
Tony Benn on the establishment…


“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
George Orwell
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin
Don’t side with the powerful against the disempowered. Just don’t.
Learning to distinguish between empowered parties and disempowered parties can be a little tricky, because nobody likes to think of themselves as siding with the powerful against the weak. It’s something we all know intuitively to be wrong, so we’ll often find clever ways of using an incomplete analysis of the power dynamics at play which allows us to feel as though we’re fighting the power when we’re really doing the exact opposite.
And propagandists are of course all too eager to help us do this.


“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.”
Alexander Hamilton


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