"Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper."
— Ray Bradbury
I wanted my readers to realize that man alone of all the creatures that inhabit the earth or the waters below or the air above takes life wantonly; he is the only creature that derives pleasure from inflicting pain on other creatures, even his own kind. Jealousy, greed, hate, spitefulness are more fully developed in man than in the lower orders. These are axiomatic truths that require no demonstration.
~ The Tarzan Theme, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Digital Mush & network abstraction.
The central mistake of recent digital culture is to chop up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush. You then start to care about the abstraction of the network more than the real people who are networked, even though the network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.
~ Jaron Lanier. You are not a Gadget
"practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years - imprisonment without trial … torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages … - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."
— 1984 - George Orwell
