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Mikhail Bulgakov
“You are right. They have changed a great deal … on the outside, I mean, as has the city, by the way. Apart from the obvious changes in dress, there are now these… what are they called … streetcars, automobiles …”
“Buses,” Fagot chimed in, respectfully
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“Exactly so, thank you,” said the magician slowly, in a deep bass. “A much more important question is: have the Muscovites changed on the inside?”
“Indeed, sir, that is a most important question.”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Most physicians and patients believe disease risk is set by genetics. This is false, but also the most common excuse doctors give patients when we do not know the answer. We just blame it on genetics and hope you’re satisfied. Don’t be. We learned this from the studies by Nir Barzilai, MD on super centenarians at Albert Einstein Medical College. Studies on people over 100 years old showed they were all found to harbor most of the bad genes we already know about. What was very interesting, however, was that the bad genes were turned off in these people. The ultimate arbiter of a long healthy life is the expression of our genes-whether they are turned on or off. This is called the epigenetic expression of disease.”
Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

William Gibson
“Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture”
William Gibson, Neuromancer

William Gibson
“He saw the thing the shell of gray paper had concealed. Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In his mind’s eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection. Alien. He pulled the trigger, forgetting to press the ignition, and fuel hissed over the bulging, writhing life at his feet.”
William Gibson, Neuromancer

Mattias Desmet
“The coronavirus crisis did not come out of the blue. It fits into a series of increasingly desperate and self-destructive societal responses to objects of fear: terrorists, global warming, coronavirus. Whenever a new object of fear arises in society, there is only one response and one defense in our current way of thinking: increased control. The fact that the human being can tolerate only a certain amount of control is completely overlooked. Coercive control leads to fear and fear leads to more coercive control. Just like that, society falls victim to a vicious circle that inevitably leads to totalitarianism, which means to extreme government control, eventually resulting in the radical destruction of both the psychological and physical integrity of human beings.”
Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

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