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“The idea of being cut off from the other, as laboratory researchers are from their objects of inquiry, is perhaps the fundamental error of our civilization. The delusion inherent in this idea is what makes possible our unbelievable indifference to the widespread death of the natural world.”

“Striving for the most pleasant existence imaginable, for security, recognition, and regular nightly oblivion in this technologically comfortable and monstrous twenty-first century, hadn't we all become obsessed with an image of love that led us away from aliveness and sucked us down into a spiral of desires in whose middle was nothing but our own optimized selves - cut off, disconnected, and ultimately dead?”

“Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.”

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Wow.

Imagining rock-like aliens doing jazz hands. Did not expect that.

“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of.”

“When you have the microphone, what you say matters, even when you're just kidding. It's so easy to take refuge in the "just" of just kidding.
It's just a joke. We're just doing it for the memes. But the preposterous and absurd can still shape our understanding of ourselves and one another. And ridiculous cruelty is still cruel.”

“I wonder if you have people like that in your life, people whose love keeps you going even though they are distant now because of time and geography and everything else that comes between us.”

“Disco was at once about community and individual pleasure, sensation and alienation, orgy and sacrifice; it promised liberation and constraint, release and restraint, frivolity and doom. Disco was both utopia and hell.”

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“Humane slaughter” ?!