Culture consists of massive collections of complex skills and knowledge which are transferred from person to person through two core mediums, language and imitation. We would be nothing without our savant-like ability to imitate others. Accurate imitation, in turn, may depend on the uniquely human ability to “adopt another’s point of view”—both visually and metaphorically.

— The Tell-tale Brain

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

— Winston Churchill

The death of the "liberal individual"
By Yanis Varoufakis

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If you want a taste of dystopia, you should read 'Technofeudalism,' 'Psychopolitics,' and 'Brave New World' together.
They describe the same issues from entirely different points of view; one is economic, the other is philosophical/psychological, and the third is a novel.

Damn, we're so fucked and nobody sees an issue with that

In the social networks [of the late-modern individual], the function of “friends” is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity.

Today’s crisis of freedom stems from the fact that the operative technology of power does not negate or repress freedom so much as exploit it.

— Psychopolitics

Has there not been since the time of Copernicus an unbroken progress in the self-belittling of man and his will for belittling himself? Alas, his belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplaceableness in the scheme of existence, is gone—he has become animal, literal, unqualified, and unmitigated animal, he who in his earlier belief was almost God... Since Copernicus man seems to have fallen on to a steep plane—he rolls faster and faster away from the centre—whither? Into nothingness? Into the "thrilling sensation of his own nothingness"?