‘Politics is magic. He who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow.’

— Buch der Freunde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal

‘The enemies of liberal democracy, they have a method. They hack our feelings. Not our emails, not our bank accounts — they hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelings to polarize and destroy democracy from within. [ … ] They cannot create these feelings out of nothing. So they get to know our own pre-existing weaknesses. And then use them against us.’

—Yuval Noah Harari, from ‘Why fascism is so tempting — and how your data could power it’ at TED2018