Quotes

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.

The ’Black Magician’ or Sorcerer is hardly even a distant cousin of the ’Black Brother.’ The difference between a sneak-thief and a Hitler is not too bad an analogy… The Black Brothers are highly advanced adepts of the Art who have simply, as the popular phrase goes, ‘been seduced by the dark side of the Force.’

It’s about manipulating real-time events, dealing with devious “spirits” and other autonomous energy sources. It’s about conjuring dead pop icons to do your bidding and writing it all down so that it reads like an exciting adventure story and changes the world around it. Magic is glamorous, dark and charismatic. “Magic” is the hopelessly inadequate Standard English word for a long-established technology which permits access to the “operating codes” underlying the current physical universe. Becoming a “magician” is a developmental skill, like learning to talk, to reason, to empathize or to see perspective.
Magic, in short, is Life as it is meant to be Lived by adults.

The ’Black Magician’ or Sorcerer is hardly even a distant cousin of the ’Black Brother.’ The difference between a sneak-thief and a Hitler is not too bad an analogy… The Black Brothers are highly advanced adepts of the Art who have simply, as the popular phrase goes, ‘been seduced by the dark side of the Force.’

I am personally quite convinced that no matter what training or education I might have received, I could never have run a four-minute mile, discovered Gödel’s theorems, composed a Beethoven quartet, or risen to any of other innumerable heights of human achievement. I feel in no way demeaned by these inadequacies. It is quite enough that I am capable, as I think any person of normal endowments probably is, of appreciating and in part understanding what others have accomplished, while making my own personal contributions in whatever measure and manner I am able to do so.

You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.

Poor people used to live in slums. Now the ‘economically disadvantaged’ occupy ‘substandard housing’ in the inner-cities. And a lot of them are broke. They don’t have ‘negative cash-flow’, they’re broke. Because many of them were fired. In other words, management wanted to ‘curtail redundancies in the human resources area’, and so many workers are no longer ‘viable members of the workforce’.

Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It’s as simple as that.

The CIA doesn’t kill anybody, they ‘neutralize’ people, or they ‘depopulate an area’. The government doesn’t lie, it engages in ‘disinformation’. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something called ‘sunshine units’. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. The Contra killers were known as ‘freedom fighters’. Well if crime fighters fight crime and firefighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature.

The writer, after enlarging on the above for several pages, proceeded to inquire whether traces of the approach of such a new phase of life could be perceived at present; whether we could see any tenements preparing which might in a remote futurity be adapted for it; whether, in fact, the primordial cell of such a kind of life could be now detected upon earth. In the course of his work he answered this question in the affirmative and pointed to the higher machines.