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“When Convention is Contaminated:

Brain cannot survive the vacuum of space, mind cannot survive the vacuum of time - so the body produces spinal fluid for the brain to float, and the brain produces beliefs for the mind to survive. But while the immune system keeps the spinal fluid sterilized of infection without conscious intervention, brain does nothing to keep beliefs sterilized of prejudice, unless you make it a habit to question convention.

Choose to fight physical infection or not, your body will do it for you, but as for psychological contaminations, you have to fight them yourself - the faculties are already carved in your brain circuits, but you have to be willing to use them, defying the comforting fantasies of convention, that's how an ape evolves into human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its purpose remains today, as it was a century ago, to challenge clear-cut solutions and to ask troubling questions.”
― Barbora Jiřincová, Mariánský sloup na Staroměstském náměstí v Praze

“Consciousness not Compost (The Sonnet)

Owning brand new devices counts for nothing,
if your mind belongs brutally to the stoneage.
It's okay to carry trinkets as heirloom,
but consciousness is no object of heritage.

To make heritage out of consciousness
is to make garbage out of consciousness.
To make tradition out of stagnation
is to make fertilizer out of living veins.

What's in your head, fervor or fertilizer!
What are you, consciousness or compost!
Buy some flowers for your ancestral graves,
but never become compost to get their praise!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Americans worship Batman and Spiderman, Indians worship Monkeyman and Lionman, Egyptians honor Falconman and Catwoman. Fantasies are apekind's escape from the mundane, problem is when fantasy turns humans into vegetable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper