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![Tiffany Madison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1336095875i/3398537._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”
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![Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206025993i/21559._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
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![Anthon St. Maarten](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1671302330i/6154621._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.”
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![Erich Fromm](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1644332218i/8788._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
![Colson Whitehead](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561996933i/10029._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.”
― The Colossus of New York
― The Colossus of New York
![Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206025993i/21559._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
![Wallace Stegner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252177524i/157779._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
![Kate Chopin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224805370i/5132._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. 'The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.' ”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
![Tiffany Madison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1336095875i/3398537._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.”
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![Jess C. Scott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603737393i/2980674._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
― The Other Side of Life
― The Other Side of Life
![René Girard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1449517211i/193536._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.”
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
― Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
![Zoltan Istvan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1365111746i/7032826._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit. Their trio of holy catechisms is: faith is more important than reason; inputs are more important than outcomes; hope is more important than reality. It was designed to choke your independent thinking and acting—to bring out the lowest common denominator in people—so that vast amounts of the general public would literally buy into sponsorship and preservation of their hegemonic nation. Their greatest achievement was the creation of the two-party political system; it gave only the illusion of choice, but never offered any change; it promised freedom, but only delivered more limits. In the end, you got stuck with two leading loser parties and not just one. It completed their trap of underhanded domination, and it worked masterfully. Look anywhere you go. America is a nation of submissive, dumbed-down, codependent, faith-minded zombies obsessed with celebrity gossip, buying unnecessary goods, and socializing without purpose on their electronic gadgets. The crazy thing is that people don't even know it; they still think they're free. Everywhere, people have been made into silent accomplices in the government's twisted control game. In the end, there is no way out for anyone.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
![Victor Hugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415946858i/13661._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
![Terry Tempest Williams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1336331040i/8155._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?”
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![Zoltan Istvan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1365111746i/7032826._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all this Western-American conditioning has been on autopilot for centuries. Nobody is in control of it anymore. It's a mindless goliath wandering the Earth, devouring lives, erasing potential, and following its every whim—regardless of how irrational, obscene, uneducated, enslaving, or backwards its actions are. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
![Thomas Ligotti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651866983i/128466._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the labyrinth of your grosser illusions. Didn't I show our well-behaved audience an angelized version of you? And you saw their reaction. They were bored and just sat in their seats like a bunch of stiffs. Of course, what can you expect? They wanted the death stuff, the pain stuff. All that flashy junk. They wanted cartwheels of agonized passion; somersaults into fires of doom; nosedives, if you will, into the frenzied pageant of vulnerable flesh. They wanted a tangible thrill.
("Drink To Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes")”
― The Nightmare Factory
("Drink To Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes")”
― The Nightmare Factory
![Kurt Vonnegut Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1433582280i/2778055._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
![Wallace Stegner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252177524i/157779._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived!”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
![Orson Scott Card](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1294099952i/589._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.”
― Children of the Mind
― Children of the Mind
![Michael Chabon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1515875672i/2715._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."
[Afterword]”
― Gentlemen of the Road
[Afterword]”
― Gentlemen of the Road
![Anthon St. Maarten](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1671302330i/6154621._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.”
― Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
― Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
![Joseph O'Neill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1406117552i/389474._UY200_CR66,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.”
― Netherland
― Netherland
![Jyoti Patel](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1607931712i/7735568._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Don’t let the modern love change you too much that you forget what it is to live with kindness and compassion.
From (The Awakening)”
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From (The Awakening)”
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![Joe Strummer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208453263i/523748._UX200_CR0,52,200,200_.jpg)
“You see, I'm not like Paul [Simonon] or the others, I had a chance to be a 'good, normal person' with a nice car and a house in the suburbs – the golden apple or whatever you call it. But I saw through it. I saw it was an empty life.
I only saw my father once a year (after being sent to boarding school). He was a real disciplinarian who was always giving me speeches about how he had pulled himself up by the sweat of his brow: a real guts and determination man. What he was really saying to me was, 'If you play by the rules, you can end up like me'. And I saw right away I didn't want to end up like him. Once I got out on my own, I realized I was right. I saw how the rules worked and I didn't like them.
[-- LA Times interview]”
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I only saw my father once a year (after being sent to boarding school). He was a real disciplinarian who was always giving me speeches about how he had pulled himself up by the sweat of his brow: a real guts and determination man. What he was really saying to me was, 'If you play by the rules, you can end up like me'. And I saw right away I didn't want to end up like him. Once I got out on my own, I realized I was right. I saw how the rules worked and I didn't like them.
[-- LA Times interview]”
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![René Guénon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1599206790i/239177._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“If modern civilization should some day be destroyed by the disordered appetites that it has awakened in the masses, one would have to be very blind not to see in this the just punishment of its basic vice-or, without resorting to the language of morality, the repercussion of its own action in the same domain in which this action has taken place. The Gospel says 'all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword'; those who unchain the brute forces of matter will perish, crushed by these same forces, of which they will no longer be masters; having once imprudently set them in motion, they cannot hope to hold back indefinitely their fatal course. [...] The Gospel also says: 'If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand'; this saying also applies fully to the modern world with its material civilization, which cannot fail, by its very nature, to cause strife and division everywhere. The conclusion is obvious and, even without appealing to other considerations, it is possible to predict with all certainty that this world will come to a tragic end, unless a change as radical as to amount to a complete reversal of direction should intervene, and that very soon.”
― The Crisis of the Modern World
― The Crisis of the Modern World
![James Hollis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219275156i/18159._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Still, take away such physically charged images of identity, take away the wisdom of elders, take away the community of men, and one has the modern world.”
― Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
― Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
![Louise H.A. Trankjær](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1701422301i/17507193._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Et par gange havde vi gået ekstra ture ind i de små byer og tjekket nogle huse ud, der lå lidt fra søen. Der var et sted, der trak i mig, hver gang vi gik. Det lå lidt fra vandet, måske nogle hundrede meter inde i landet, og en lille asfalteret vej ledte fra syd mod nord i området, mens en større å krydsede igennem området fra øst mod vest ud i søen. Der lå syv huse i umiddelbar nærhed af hinanden, og det var Bulderbyhuse i ægte Lindgren-stil. Der var små folde, hvide hegn, køkkenhaver og frugttræer. Vi havde rekognosceret området flere gange, og vi var sikre på, at der ikke var mennesker tilbage i nærheden. Det var oplagt, at vi skulle slå os ned der, men det gav ingen mening uden de andre.
Uden de andre. Det var der, vi var nu. Uden de andre. Det var kun Haady og mig, og derfor trådte plan B i kraft.
Vi forlod Gissen sø til fordel for Vimmerby og håbet om at finde strøm og net og ødelægge Beredskabet indefra. Vi pakkede tingene sammen i hytten og satte kurs mod byen. Der var knap tyve kilometer, men det føltes som at gå ind i en helt anden verden efter de mange dage ved søen omgivet af natur og vand. Da husene sluttede tæt om os, stoppede jeg op et øjeblik og snurrede langsomt rundt for at tage det hele ind, denne nye virkelighed, det ensomste menneske i verden.
”Hvad tænker du?” spurgte jeg, selvom jeg vidste, at han var lige så meget på bar bund som jeg, som Mio og Jum-Jum på jagt efter den dybeste hule i det sorteste bjerg. Men vi havde ingen pilefløjter til at hjælpe os på vej.
”Vi finder et godt sted at slå os ned. Det ville være perfekt, hvis vi kunne finde et butikscenter med møbler, tøj og mad i et, så vi kan have alt under samme tag. Der behøver vi heller ikke frygte eventuel oprydning.”
Oprydning betød lig. Menneskerester. Hud, hår og knogler. Dyb stank.
Jeg nikkede samtykkende, tog en langsom snurretur mere for at prøve at regne ud, hvor sådan et center ville være i en by som Vimmerby, hvis de havde et, men Haady kom mig i forkøbet og pegede skråt fremad mod, hvad der på afstand kunne ligne en form for gågade. ”Kom,” sagde han og vinkede mig med.”
― Vi var så blidt i verden
Uden de andre. Det var der, vi var nu. Uden de andre. Det var kun Haady og mig, og derfor trådte plan B i kraft.
Vi forlod Gissen sø til fordel for Vimmerby og håbet om at finde strøm og net og ødelægge Beredskabet indefra. Vi pakkede tingene sammen i hytten og satte kurs mod byen. Der var knap tyve kilometer, men det føltes som at gå ind i en helt anden verden efter de mange dage ved søen omgivet af natur og vand. Da husene sluttede tæt om os, stoppede jeg op et øjeblik og snurrede langsomt rundt for at tage det hele ind, denne nye virkelighed, det ensomste menneske i verden.
”Hvad tænker du?” spurgte jeg, selvom jeg vidste, at han var lige så meget på bar bund som jeg, som Mio og Jum-Jum på jagt efter den dybeste hule i det sorteste bjerg. Men vi havde ingen pilefløjter til at hjælpe os på vej.
”Vi finder et godt sted at slå os ned. Det ville være perfekt, hvis vi kunne finde et butikscenter med møbler, tøj og mad i et, så vi kan have alt under samme tag. Der behøver vi heller ikke frygte eventuel oprydning.”
Oprydning betød lig. Menneskerester. Hud, hår og knogler. Dyb stank.
Jeg nikkede samtykkende, tog en langsom snurretur mere for at prøve at regne ud, hvor sådan et center ville være i en by som Vimmerby, hvis de havde et, men Haady kom mig i forkøbet og pegede skråt fremad mod, hvad der på afstand kunne ligne en form for gågade. ”Kom,” sagde han og vinkede mig med.”
― Vi var så blidt i verden
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