George Ritzer (1940) American sociologist
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 15, Global Inequalities II: Global Majority-Minority Relations, p. 455
Values Voter Summit, 2011-10-08, quoted in * Beck: "The Violent Left Is Coming To Our Streets" "To Smash, To Tear Down, To Kill, To Bankrupt, To Destroy"
Media Matters for America
2011-10-08
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110080002
2011-08-17
2010s, 2011
George Ritzer (1940) American sociologist
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 15, Global Inequalities II: Global Majority-Minority Relations, p. 455
“It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy”
Hunter S. Thompson book Kingdom of Fear
"Kingdom of Fear" (12 September 2001)
2000s
Context: It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy … We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows?
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
Speech at the Katowice Climate Change Conference, "David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/03/david-attenborough-collapse-civilisation-on-horizon-un-climate-summit, The Guardian, 3 December 2018. <br class="br">Climate Change Conference 2018
“The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.”
Antonio Negri book Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
xi
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1914–1975) Greek architect
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 11, The polis, p. 154
Zbigniew Brzeziński book The Grand Chessboard
Source: The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 35.
“Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001)
Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist
Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics: Essays. 1999, p. 20.
“Nature is beautiful and calm, but it can also be violent and deadly in an astronomical scale.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019