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Learning to defend against psychic intrusions is giving me Inception vibes 🧠

"Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure..."

"It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion, it might get out of hand, and turn it's ferocity beyond slavery to the most successful system of capitalist enrichment in the world. If a war, those who made the war would organize its consequences. Hence, it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown."

Quitting here unfortunately for the time being. :'( The War of the Worlds is a lot more interesting and exciting but it just couldn't hook me.

The Time Machine was very drab, not a great first introduction to Wells. I did enjoy how he envisioned poor workers evolving into subterranean and carnivorous monkey monsters that prey on the now helpless privileged people after 800 thousand years. 2/5 stars.