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Humanitarianism
“
I Am The Naskar (Sonnet 2100)
I am the Naskar,
and I bridge people.
Unlike religious salesmen,
I don't offer you a promised land -
because there is nothing to promise,
that land of love and life already exists -
it exists in your neurons - all you need to do is,
bring down the walls that keep you foreign,
all you need to do is, denounce the pills
that keep you alien in your own home.
And when I've drawn all my mortal breaths,
I'll take leave with one final declaration -
let there be gods - n
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― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
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As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen. As long as they did not use nuclear weapons, it appeared, nobody was going to give the right name to all the killing that had been going on since the end of the Second World War, which was surely “World War Three.
”
― Galápagos
― Galápagos
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