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Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

by Alec Nevala-Lee (Goodreads Author)

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The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806

by Jonathan I. Israel

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An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862-1947

by Abhinav Chandrachud

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“Look, it’s the same color as mine. Don’t be fooled by that. People are. But prick an imbecile and he’ll bleed crimson. So will a dog.”
― Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion

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“We’re more threatened by people who want the same things as us than by those who don’t.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

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“Girard discovered that most of what we desire is mimetic (mi-met-ik) or imitative, not intrinsic. Humans learn—through imitation—to want the same things other people want, just as they learn how to speak the same language and play by the same cultural rules. Imitation plays a far more pervasive role in our society than anyone had ever openly acknowledged.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

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“engineering desire, is the approach of Silicon Valley, authoritarian governments, and the Cult of Experts. The first two use intelligence and data to centrally plan a system in which people want things that other people want them to want -- things that benefit a certain group of people. This approach poses a serious threat to human agency. It also lacks respect for the capability of people to freely desire what is best for themselves and for the people they love.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

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“While we fight for equality in the areas that do matter: for fundamental human and civil rights, or for the freedom for each person to pursue their thick desires (in the United States, this is called "the pursuit of happiness"); we also begin fighting for equality in areas that do not matter, our thing desires: to make as much money as someone else, to have the same number of Instagram followers, to have the same amount of status or respect or professional prestige as any one of the nearly eight billion models on the planet.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

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