Category:Oligarchic escapes

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Oligarchic escapes

In the book On Freedom, historian Timothy Snyder discusses at length the self-deluding fantasies of escaping the problems of Earth that oligarchs use to assuage their feelings of mortality while eliminating the freedoms of non-oligarchs.[1]:203-208

Escapism is the absolutely predictable oligarchic posture during catastrophic times. The rest of us have to endure the oligarchs' moronic fantasies — Ukraine is Russia, immortality is possible, space travel will save us, life might be a simulation — as time runs out on our hopes for dignity and survival as a species. A poignant element of our tragedy is its profound stupidity. There are things so idiotic that you need $10 billion to believe them.
—Timothy Snyder[1]:204

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (2024) Crown. ISBN 9780593728727.

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