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Such sports as baseball, football, wrestling, track and field events, chess and warfare may owe their appeal—as well as their largely male following—to these prewired hunting skills, which served us so well for millions of years of human
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Cube
“It is my suspicion that the galaxies are drastically distant from one another so they can only be traversed by beings who have already overcome bivnik—by species able to contain their lust for cosmic abasement long enough to resist writing their names on the stars and selling nebulae for advertising space—a kind of evolutionary selection pressure, if you will. Those species that give in to avarice and limitless expansion are doomed to extinction long before gaining the means to leave their galaxy or transcend to the higher-dimensional realms.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“Bolstered by doomsday weapons and an internet that can no longer agree on a consensus narrative regarding just about anything, the 2020s may well be the defining decade of our species. As in, this could well be make-or-break time. And if you are being told again and again that humans have to starve to keep the machine going, that the current indignities are just a necessary quirk of the system, that we will only survive if we preserve the status quo, then I would like to leave you with a paraphrasing of something my hero Ursula K. Le Guin said in a speech shortly before she died:”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“The reaches of the current system may seem inescapable at the moment. Well so was the divine rite of kings not too long ago.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“The world may be a story, but the plot delivers no catharsis, and the moral the story is trying to get across is far from obvious.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“dreaming wide and big of a society where no one is trodden on and everyone can eat. Our dignity relies on it. Our descendants will rely on it. Don’t listen to these miserable, jaded fucks who insist that the indignities and inequalities of the current world are just necessary evils. These same bastards would’ve tried to keep feudalism around not a half-millennium ago.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
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