# Quote — Heather Brooke, The Revolution will be Digitised

> We seek a saviour, someone to rescue us from the problems of the world. A saviour is the simple story, the easy option and that is why it is so compelling. You don't have to do anything except believe. There's no need to negotiate with other people, or figure out how to create a robust system within the bizarre and contradictory parameters of human nature. I must admit I fell prey to this when I first met Julian Assange. He was going to lead the way to a bold new age. Instead I learned that power when concentrated is dangerous no matter who holds it or for whatever good intention. The real revolution happens in our own minds, when we stop believing there is someone or some agency who has all the answers, who is infallible and will save us, and instead come to realise we have that ability within ourselves. We may be susceptible to cults of personality, but we can build a check against this into our political systems.

- Author: [Heather Brooke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke.md)
- Book: [The Revolution will be Digitised](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised.md)
- Page: 237
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke#The_Revolution_Will_Be_Digitised:_Dispatches_From_the_Information_War,_1st_Edition) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/we-seek-a-saviour

## More from this book

> At a time of information overload, good journalists are more important then ever. They serve as the public's hired guns to collect information from various sources and challenge it for the purpose of distilling down what is important and true. They-signpost issues that are worthy of our attention. In the past when we bought newspapers we were paying for that particular newspaper with its content- a bundle of news and entertainment. In the digital age we're buying the carriage (e.g. the Internet access) and readers decide later what information they want to view over that carrier.

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/at-a-time.md)

> We are at an extraordinary moment in human history: never before has the possibility of true democracy been so close to realisation. At the cost of publishing and duplication has dropped to near zero, a truly free press, and a truly informed public, becomes a reality. A new Information Enlightment is dawning where knowledge flows freely, beyond national boundaries. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography, replacing them with an ethos of collaboration and transparency. In this new Enlightenment it isn't just scientific truths that are the goal, but discovering truths about the way we live, about politics and power.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/we-are-at-an-extraordinary.md)

> Authoritarians offer citizens a deal: if we hand over our freedom, they will guarantee certainty and safety. This might have been possible in a closed society with little interaction between people, but it is a false promise in a knowledge economy where citizens are interconnected. If the best chaos theorists can't model the weather beyond a week, how does the National Security Agency think it can predict which of us will turn into a terrorist? If our intelligence agencies persist in monopolising knowledge we will see continued intelligence failures.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/authoritarians-offer-citizens.md)