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The penultimate chapter will lay out how some of today’s florid outbursts of irrationality may be understood as the rational pursuit of goals other than an objective understanding of the world.
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Octavia E. Butler
“A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of super-person. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Frank Patrick Herbert
“They’re not mad. They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

Milan Kundera
“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Stephen Baxter
“There were no more nations, but there were neighbourhoods, regions, zones, and a hierarchy of councils, parliaments and congresses: talking shops, all the way up to some kind of world-government council. This system was what they called the Common Heritage. He wondered vaguely if this had evolved from a form of emergency organisation in the refugee days – the ‘Chaos’ – maybe built on some elements of the old UN.”
Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

Steven Pinker
“The penultimate chapter will lay out how some of today’s florid outbursts of irrationality may be understood as the rational pursuit of goals other than an objective understanding of the world.”
Steven Pinker, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

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