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"Mirroring a lot of Brave New World's ideas - instant gratification should make everyone happy. Individualism and intellectualness should be stamped out. Anything that reminds one of something sad, upsetting, offensive should be discarded and forgotten." — Apr 13, 2021 05:05PM
"Mirroring a lot of Brave New World's ideas - instant gratification should make everyone happy. Individualism and intellectualness should be stamped out. Anything that reminds one of something sad, upsetting, offensive should be discarded and forgotten." — Apr 13, 2021 05:05PM
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There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds
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“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
― The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Thief of Time
― Thief of Time
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Join bestselling and award winning author Margaret Atwood for a discussion group in celebration of the paperback release of her novel The Year of the ...more
The Atheist Book Club
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In these gilded halls we shall discuss the presence of the atheistic viewpoint in the written form. Are you a fan of Douglas Adams' scientific view of ...more
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