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Book cover for Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite as well as those equipped with narrow, ...more
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Richard Dawkins
“In the original fertilized egg, for instance, certain chemicals congregate at one end of the cell, others at the other end. When such a polarized cell divides, the two daughter cells receive different chemical allocations. This means that different genes will be read in the two daughter cells, and a kind of self-reinforcing divergence gets going.”
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

“There is no such thing as a society and there never was. It was just you, me and the others all along. There is no we. There is no ours. There are only individuals with different amounts of influence on other individuals. Only an individual can make a decision. Only an individual can claim ownership.”
Knut Svanholm, Bitcoin: Independence Reimagined

“While we rail on each other over whether a term is offensive, Blackrock is buying up all the houses292 and Monsanto is buying all the farms, and soon enough we can’t afford to live in a house or buy groceries.”
Kaleb Gorman, Psychwars: Self-Defence Against Psyops, Propaganda, and Mind Control

“Nobody could have ever conceived of a more absurd waste of human resources than to dig gold in distant corners of the Earth for the sole purpose of transporting it and reburying it immediately afterward in other deep holes, especially excavated to receive it and heavily guarded to protect it. The history of human intuitions, however, has a logic of its own.”
Nik Bhatia, Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies

Michel de Montaigne
“AWe are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne

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