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When you come home from work that night, you tell your partner about your day. If he ignores you, falls asleep while you're
talking, or immediately starts talking about his day, you'll likely feel further dismissed and invalidated. What you
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“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
[From the Preface]”
― The Screwtape Letters
[From the Preface]”
― The Screwtape Letters
“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”
― The Sixteen Satires
― The Sixteen Satires
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