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"Total technology is the idea that technology carries a political and ideological project through its will to power and limitless control. It’s impossible to grasp the ramifications of this from one single angle"
"This binary choice is self-manipulation! For years, we’ve been formulating the problem in exactly the same way on matters of technological surveillance"
"It’s too easy to treat these people like eccentrics. When we can’t take something seriously, it tends to swallow us up! Elon Musk is nothing of a clown, no matter what some people say: through the highly strategic companies he manages, he de facto occupies a geopolitical position. We have to accept the reality"
"Both Musk and Sam Altman have a rare relationship with risk: they’re always taking gambles’"
"The difference is that all of a sudden, since it’s private, cost is reduced and a horizon of profitability appears. And privatisation means that what is therapeutic or for leisure today can become a weapon of war tomorrow"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.