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“Когда–нибудь наши потомки назовут несколько наших поколений — поколениями слюнтяев: сперва мы покорно позволяли избивать нас миллионами, потом мы заботливо холили убийц в их благополучной старости.”
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
“Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.”
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Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
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