Fortunately, over time, that childhood anxiety had faded away, like a brightly colored toy discarded in a sun-bleached desert. Yet, like all childhood monsters, it was only replaced by the mundane, and arguably worse, terrors of adulthood:
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“She's rather the buttoned-down sort. She acts the way she thinks she's supposed to act, and she keeps her real feelings pushed deep into the depths of her mind. In fact, sometimes I wonder whether she has any real feelings at all,”
― 1918
― 1918
“In the absence of information, the human brain still continues to work. It still processes information even if there is nothing there to process. And if there’s still nothing, then after a while, it starts to create and fabricate that information itself.”
― Hallucinations
― Hallucinations
“The mantra of Millennial anxiety: Mass Hysteria. Mass Hypnosis. Mass Production. Mass Transit. Mass Murder. Mass Media. Massacre. Mass Exodus. Mass Extinction.”
― The Imago Sequence
― The Imago Sequence
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