“The burden of my argument is that to set oneself up like this in such a defeatingly vast and intimidatingly inhuman structure is merely to announce the coming to rest of one's progress, and without that we are lost." "Di burdin ov mi argumint is dat 2 set Iself up like dis in such a defeetinly vast & intimidaytinly inhumin structyir is meerly 2 anounce di cumin 2 rest ov 1s progress, & witout dat we r lost.” PhilosophyWisdomHumanityTechnologyProgressSocietyFutureScience FictionArchitectureExistentialism Book:Feersum Endjinn Source: Feersum Endjinn
“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
“But I don’t know what the right thing to do is; I sometimes think I know too much, I’ve studied too much, learned too much, remembered too much. It all seems to average out, somehow; like dust that settles over... whatever machinery we carry inside us that leads us to act, and puts the same weight everywhere, so that always you can see good and bad on each side, and always there are arguments, precedents for every possible course of action... so of course one ends up doing nothing. Perhaps that’s only right; perhaps that’s what evolution requires, to leave the field free for younger, unencumbered minds, and those not afraid to act.” WisdomThe Right Thing Book:Use Of Weapons Source: Use Of Weapons
“Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves” WisdomRessentiment Book:Inversions Source: Inversions