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We speak because we are powerless.
Because we are powerless against the Internet.
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The math overwhelmingly favours the established interests.If we're in thrall to big ideas, it's largely because we're powerless against small interests.
This is a basic self-esteem belief that makes us feel out of control and insecure, because if we are powerless, then we don't have the ability to do what we think needs to be done.
We like to believe we are powerless because it releases us from the responsibility of having to take action, but we are never powerless...except when we aren't paying attention and we honestly don't really care.
We are powerless".
For some of us, it has left an enduring mark, a sense that we failed, not so much as journalists, but as human beings, because we saw things we were powerless to stop.
And this epidemic didn't "happen" to our kids because of some extraterrestrial invasion we were powerless to withstand.
Yorke said the lyrics were "gibberish but they come out of ideas I've been fighting with for ages about how people are basically just pixels on a screen, unknowingly serving this higher power which is manipulative and destructive, but we're powerless because we can't name it".
"We were powerless," he said.
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