Carlos Ortega

“My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don’t. The reality isn’t important; what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

(story: What's Expected of Us)”
― Ted Chiang, What's Expected of Us

“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.”
― Louis Althusser

“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones