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There is an old Greek proverb that reads, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Planting Trees in Shade We’ll Never Know
dailystoic.com
The writers of the 2001 videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, presaged the absurd intellectual environment of the world wide web: “The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate … No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in ‘truth.’ And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
How Individualism Created Our Postmodern Culture
Alexander Blum
Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins, and what parts of it don’t count.
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
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