"The message that emerges from [Ai Weiwei's] work is that the truest resistance to the oppression of conformity is the riot of human diversity, the singular nature of the individual and their individual expression, the non-deterministic variability of things we—all of us—think and do and make. Difference is the seed value of our human process."
Cultural Revolutions - Freedom is not a goal, but a direction - by Edward Snowden:
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevolutions