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In 1506, Machiavelli received a letter from a friend, who had recently read the first part of his history of the decade they’d just lived through. The friend urged Machiavelli to write more. Why? Because, he said, without a good history of
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“My town is a factory for the production of human babies. People live in nests packed closely together. It's just like the silkworm room in Granny's house. The nests are lined up neatly in rows, and each contains a breeding pair of male and female humans and their babies. The breeding pairs raise their young inside their nests.
The Baby Factory produces humans connected by flesh and blood. Eventually we children will also leave the factory and be shipped out.
Once shipped out, male and female humans are trained how to take food back to their own nests. They become society's tools, receive money from other humans, and purchase food. Eventually these young humans also form breeding pairs, coop themselves up in new nests, and manufacture more babies.”
― Earthlings
The Baby Factory produces humans connected by flesh and blood. Eventually we children will also leave the factory and be shipped out.
Once shipped out, male and female humans are trained how to take food back to their own nests. They become society's tools, receive money from other humans, and purchase food. Eventually these young humans also form breeding pairs, coop themselves up in new nests, and manufacture more babies.”
― Earthlings
“Now, too, I felt reassured by the expression on Mrs. Izumi and Sugawara’s faces: Good, I pulled off being a “person.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Even as an adult, my sister entrusted the keys of her life to other people. Didnt that scare her? How could she be so cheerful?”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“Having been made to suffer by the religion of romantic love, we wanted to be saved by the religion of family.”
― Vanishing World
― Vanishing World
“Society was a system for falling in love. People who couldn't fall in love had to fake it. What came first: the system or love?”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
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