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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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[...] The final way of solving social catastrophe is ... by the demolition of the mass transit system that ruined everything by literally raised the poor and put them among the rich: travelling together, social-democratic welfarism as opposed to trickle-downism is a nice dream but leads to social collapse, and if left unchecked terrorism that sends transit systems careering through the sky into tall buildings in the middle of New York-style cities—9/11 as caused by the crisis of excessive social solidarity, the arrogance of masses not being sufficiently terrified of their shepherds.

In all a film that says social stratification is necessary to prevent tragedy, and that it should be policed by terrorising the plebeians, for the sake of corporations which if there is a happy ending ... will end up back in the hands of a single enlightened despot, hurrah, to save us from the depredations of consensus.

apparently a comment on one of Richard Seymour's blog posts from 2005 (since lost to the digital ether)

—p.145 Gothic Oedipus: Subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (139) by China Miéville 5 years, 3 months ago

[...] The final way of solving social catastrophe is ... by the demolition of the mass transit system that ruined everything by literally raised the poor and put them among the rich: travelling together, social-democratic welfarism as opposed to trickle-downism is a nice dream but leads to social collapse, and if left unchecked terrorism that sends transit systems careering through the sky into tall buildings in the middle of New York-style cities—9/11 as caused by the crisis of excessive social solidarity, the arrogance of masses not being sufficiently terrified of their shepherds.

In all a film that says social stratification is necessary to prevent tragedy, and that it should be policed by terrorising the plebeians, for the sake of corporations which if there is a happy ending ... will end up back in the hands of a single enlightened despot, hurrah, to save us from the depredations of consensus.

apparently a comment on one of Richard Seymour's blog posts from 2005 (since lost to the digital ether)

—p.145 Gothic Oedipus: Subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (139) by China Miéville 5 years, 3 months ago

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