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Frank Herbert
“Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.”
Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

Karl Popper
“But this historicism, with its Substitution of certainty for hope, must lead to a moral futurism. ' The law cannot be broken.' So we can be sure, on psychological grounds, that whatever we do will lead to the same result ; that even fascism must, in the end, lead to that commonwealth ; so that the final outcome does not depend upon our moral decision, and that there is no need to worry over our responsibilities. If we are told that we can be certain, on scientific grounds that 'the last will be first and the first will be last', what else is this but the substitution of historical prophecy for conscience ?”
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx

Frank Herbert
“People will try to understand me and to frame me in their words. They will seek truth. But the truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it”
Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

David Graeber
“Production'' is thus simultaneously a variation on a male fantasy of child­ birth, and of the action of a male Creator God who similarly created the entire universe through the sheer power of his mind and words, just as men see themselves as creating the world from their minds and brawn, and see that as the essence of "work;' leaving to women most of the actual labor of tidying and maintaining things to make this illusion possible.”
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber
“The term ‘inequality’ is a way of framing social problems appropriate to an age of technocratic reformers, who assume from the outset that no real vision of social transformation is even on the table. Debating inequality allows one to tinker with the numbers, argue about Gini coefficients and thresholds of dysfunction, readjust tax regimes or social welfare mechanisms, even shock the public with figures showing just how bad things have become (‘Can you imagine? The richest 1 per cent of the world’s population own 44 per cent of the world’s wealth!’) – but it also allows one to do all this without addressing any of the factors that people actually object to about such ‘unequal’ social arrangements: for instance, that some manage to turn their wealth into power over others; or that other people end up being told their needs are not important, and their lives have no intrinsic worth. The last, we are supposed to believe, is just the inevitable effect of inequality; and inequality, the inevitable result of living in any large, complex, urban, technologically sophisticated society. Presumably it will always be with us. It’s just a matter of degree.”
David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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