Try to be predictable to your friends and unpredictable to your enemies, rather than the opposite. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fascism does not necessarily come from the nominal government, but from he who controls information.

"Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty." - Taleb

Some things are forever, some things are not
It's the things we remember that gave the world shock"