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the resurgence of the automation discourse today is a response to a real trend unfolding across the world: there are simply too few jobs for too many people.
“You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.”
― Guns
― Guns
“The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.”
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“these people of millennia past were not like us but with more dirt. Their beliefs were different, their prayers were different, their faith was different, their very thoughts were different, and yet we still live within their long shadows.”
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
“Often discussed as the Christianization of the Roman Empire, this process can be more accurately cast as the Romanization of Christianity: one in which the religion turned itself into a branch of the Roman state in the fourth and fifth centuries.”
― Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
― Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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