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The longing to become a source of events affects each man like a mental disorder or a desired malediction. Society—an inferno of saviors! What Diogenes was looking for with his lantern was an indifferent man. . . .
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
Perhaps periodization makes it easier to remember that no matter how massively entrenched the order of things seems in your time, there is no chance at all that they are going to be the same as they are now after a century has passed, or even ten years. And if on the other hand things feel chaotic to the point of dissolution, it is also impossible that some kind of new order will not emerge eventually, and probably sooner rather than later.
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
How do you let things run out of control and still pretend to be steering them in the right direction? You invent something like overshoot: the idea that business as usual can continue for another while and then we will set the course straight by reversing it.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
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