War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Interpretation
War and economics now impact everyone globally, highlighting our interconnectedness.
Salman Rushdie's quote reflects on the evolution of warfare and economic systems, suggesting that in the modern world, conflicts and financial markets are no longer distant events. Instead, they are total and pervasive, affecting every individual regardless of their geographical location. This highlights the deep interconnections that exist in today's global society, where local events can have far-reaching consequences.
In practice
This quote can be used to open a discussion about the effects of global economics during a conference.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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faith without doubt is addiction
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Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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