"The 'normal' process of our history runs towards different forms of final catastrophe: self-destruction through ecological collapse, through the uncontrolled reign of artificial intelligence, through global wars—these endpoints of our history are the true morbid phenomena. In such a predicament, we should pull the emergency brake on our historical process, or, to quote Walter Benjamin from his 'Theses on History': 'Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake.'"

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