On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – review
“The manner in which western populations have broadly accepted the
fact of surveillance, and willingly surrendered their identities to
social media, has already gone a long way to removing that dividing line
between public and private. Snyder counsels extreme caution in rubbing
out that distinction further. He calls for a “corporeal politics”,
voting with paper ballots that can be counted and recounted;
face-to-face interaction rather than email, marching not online
petitioning: “Power wants your body softening in your chair and your
emotions dissipating on a screen. Get outside. Put your body in
unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.”