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“But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“He was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction.”
― A Calculated Life
― A Calculated Life
“If the patriarchy didn’t want her talent on her terms, then they would have to get along without it, while she sat in the shadows, making their lives miserable from time to time, getting rich off their mistakes, exploiting flaws in their security, and selling the solutions back to them.”
― The Oracle Year
― The Oracle Year
“Basically, she argues that the Secession was an example of a nation-state going extinct because it failed to adapt. America couldn’t cope with modernity, it died from the shock and was torn apart by more adaptive entities. Though I think she tends to skate around the edge of what America really died of.” “Which is what?” Yavuz shrugged. “Fear.”
― Thirteen
― Thirteen
“See, once upon a time,” Yavuz was saying, “fear was a unifying force. Back then, you could make a country strong with xenophobia. That’s the old model, the nation-state fortress thing. But you can’t live in a fortress when your whole way of life depends on globalized interdependence and trade. Once that happens, xenophobic tendency becomes a handicap, in Groombridge’s terms a non-adaptive trait.”
― Thirteen
― Thirteen
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