"It is on this other, more obscure, face of potentiality that today the power one ironically defines as 'democratic' prefers to act. It separates humans not only and not so much from what they can do but primarily and for the most part from what they can not do. Separated from his impotentiality, deprived of the experience of what he can not do, today's man believes himself capable of everything, and so he repeats his jovial 'no problem,' and his irresponsible 'I can do it,' precisely when he should instead realise that he has been consigned in unheard of measure to forces and processes over which he has lost all control."
Giorgio Agamben, "On What We Can Not Do," Nudities (Stanford, 2011)
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