“As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.” FormFreedomAirDependsShapesAbsolutesCeaseObedienceCorporateSeatsArrangementsTravelerStrictPassengersFuture Life Book:Cool memories Source: Cool memories
“There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.” FaithSimplePowerCuttingImpossibleDemandAbsolutesInstrumentsSurrenderCompromiseObedienceBiasSimilarityReadinessKnotsAbsolute PowerPower CorruptsDehumanization Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer