If you look at all successful revolutions, they usually happen when power is already weakening. …Freedom is the condition of liberation. In order to liberate yourself, you must be free. Even in revolution, it goes the same way.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057329440076824576 http://bit.ly/2ArsxYl

I’m not against democracy. The point is not to criticize democracy in the sense that we need an authoritarian regime. The key is to ask questions about the representative democracy we have today: is it still able to capture the social discontent

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057329090297032706 http://bit.ly/2RpdWX9

In England…there was a…show on the BBC & people were voting…“who is the most hated person in Britain?” Tony Blair won. But a week later, he won the election. …There is some…dissatisfaction, which cannot be captured by the electoral system.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057328951960449026 http://bit.ly/2LDRR1G

China weathered this financial crisis much more easily than elsewhere . The great danger is that all of a sudden, because of its virtual nature, crisis erupts. What is needed more and more are big radical decisions. In the democracy we have now, it’s difficult.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057327876830310400 http://bit.ly/2SqEowL

in 2008, the banks generally put a limit on borrowing because people were not paying back loans, …this…pushed the economy further down. But in China, the…political power bureau gave an order: “No, you should give people even more credit.“ https://t.co/sY2uruR6K6

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057327651868889088 http://bit.ly/2rYEb8E

The…country can…be in ruin & people starving & then a financial expert…tells you the economy is in a good state. We saw just this after the 2008 crisis. The shock was that nothing happened in reality, but all of a sudden we realized that we were in a terrible crisis.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057321020447703042 http://bit.ly/2TgwWEF

When you chat erotically on the internet, even showing your photos or whatever, you feel like you are in contact with the global world, but you are still isolated in a private space. It’s a kind of global solipsism.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1057320690716721152 http://bit.ly/2EN3oLr