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Naomi Klein

“The point of the exercise [torture] was getting prisoners to do irreparable damage to that part of themselves that believed in helping others above all else, that part of themselves that made them activists, replacing it with shame and humiliation.”

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
tags: activism, torture
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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