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This is the problem with illusions: They form easy enough, but once they fall apart, they’re impossible to put back together. They’re like
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Frank Herbert
“Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

J.G. Ballard
“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.”
― J.G. Ballard, J.G. Ballard: Quotes

Arkady Strugatsky
“intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

Frank Herbert
“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it’s that patterns are repeated. My oppressions, by and large, are no worse than any of the others and, at least, I teach a new lesson.   —”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert
“Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship,” Leto said. “They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

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