“When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Volume 4, Ch. 15
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“As we find ourselves in jobless economies, societies in which small minorities consume while the masses starve, we find ourselves forced to rethink the rationale of our current globalization and to ponder the Gandhian alternative.
At a time when Freud was liberating sex, Gandhi was reining it in; when Marx was pitting worker against capitalist, Gandhi was reconciling them; when the dominant European thought had dropped God and soul out of the social reckoning, he was centralizing society in God and soul; at a time when the colonized had ceased to think and control, he dared to think and control; and when the ideologies of the colonized had virtually disappeared, he revived them and empowered them with a potency that liberated and redeemed.”
2000s, The Sacred Warrior (2000)
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George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
The Crisis of Global Capitalism (1998)
Context: We live in a global economy, but the political organization of our global society is woefully inadequate. We are bereft of the capacity to preserve peace and to counteract the excesses of the financial markets. Without these controls, the global economy, is liable to break down