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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about in new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in most cases doing so rather strongly, leading to a pandemonium of fainting, screaming, knife waving, malicious glaring, furious remonstration, hand-clapping delight, dismay, judicious beard stroking, etc. to say nothing of secondary interactions, as when a knife waver collided with a screamer.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
The two forms became intermingled as they struggled and writhed at the brink; then, with the slowness of a great tree that has been cut through at the root, they toppled into the Chasm and disappeared.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
Yes. It's really only since wireless networks got fast enough to stream pictures to portable devices that everything changed," Enoch said, "and enabled each individual person to live twenty-four/ seven in their own personalized hallucination stream.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
One of the funny things about it, in retrospect, was its slowness, the lack of any dramatic Moment When It Had Happened. It was a little bit like the world's adoption of the Internet, which had started with a few nerds and within decades become so ubiquitous that no person under thirty could really grasp what life had been like before you could Google everything.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
The tragedy-and the entire point-of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
What's the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand."
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible-states of affairs removed from them in space and time-ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the scientific revolution and all that, and stayed there and became more globally distributed up through the Cronkite era, and then dropped to zero incredibly quickly when the Internet came along. And I think that the main thing it conferred on people was social mobility, so that if you were a smart kid growing up on a farm in Kansas or a slum in India you had a chance to do something interesting with your life. Before it-before that three-hundred-year run when there was a way for people to agree on facts-we had kings and warlords and rigid social hierarchy. During it, a lot of brainpower got unlocked and things got a lot better materially. A lot better. Now we're back in a situation where the people who have the power and the money can get what they want by dictating what the mass of people ought to believe.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
Identity" had been forever changed by the Internet; formerly it had meant "who you really are" but now it meant "any one of a number of persistent faces that you can present to the digital universe.
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Neal Stephenson _ Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible-states of affairs removed from them in space and time-ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the scientific revolution and all that, and stayed there and became more globally distributed up through the Cronkite era, and then dropped to zero incredibly quickly when the Internet came along.
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