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Book: The God's Eye View
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
It was fascinating, how people could be so reluctant to recognize blackmail, how eager they could be to convince themselves it was something else, even something fundamentally mutually cooperative. And sometimes it seemed the more powerful the individual, the greater the capacity for self-deception. He
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
But it seemed clever and careful was exactly what drew the attention of God's Eye.
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era . . . governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a god-like knowledge of every one of us. -Julian Assange"
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
If you wanted to understand the mentality of most Washington insiders, all you had to do was put yourself in the mind of an insecure teenager, at which point it all began to make sense.
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
In the twenty-first century, people threw off data like dead skin cells.
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
I have no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
Something about all that power seemed to make the assholes who wielded it believe they were invulnerable.
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
Prepping people to believe something was the hard part. Once the framework was established, they became eager to fill in the details themselves, and could be counted on to do so even if those details made little sense. Remar
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Barry Eisler _ The God's Eye View
She remembered something her mother had told her when she was a teenager: "The boy you date is different from the boy you're engaged to, the boy you're engaged to is different from the man you marry, the man you marry is different from the father of your children." She might have added, "And your ex-husband is going to be different than all of them, too.
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