“He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its evolutionary inheritance and so remade itself in whatever image it coveted. The more sophisticated you became, the less you relied on fear and pain to keep you alive; you could afford to ignore them because you had other means of coping with the consequences if things went badly.” FearHuman NatureInstinctFight Or Flight Book:Look To Windward Source: Look To Windward
“In those days the world was not a garden and the people were not idle as they are now. Then on the face of the world there was real wilderness, empty of humanity, and the wilderness that humanity created, the wilderness that it packed with itself and which it called City. People toiled and people idled and the toilers worked for themselves and yet not for themselves and the idle did no work or little work and what they did, did only for themselves; money was all-powerful then and people said they made it work for them but money cannot work, only people and machines can work.” WisdomHuman NaturePhilosophy Of LifeDeep ThoughtsSocial CommentaryUrban LifeWork LifeAnti CapitalismEconomic HistoryFuture Perspectives Book:Feersum Endjinn Source: Feersum Endjinn