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Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
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They stole our revolution and now we're stealing it back and selling it to Yahoo.
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It wasn't until I assembled these texts that I realized that they fell naturally into thematic sections. They're concerned with different fields of study, but you no longer have to be a polymath to blur those. You can type in a keyword and gigantic, world-spanning machines will instantly blur them for you.
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In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.
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I don’t think there’s much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
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Don’t become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
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SCHISMATRIX is a creeping sea-urchin of a book – spikey and odd. It isn’t very elegant, and it lacks bilateral symmetry, but pieces of it break off inside people and stick with them for years.
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I’m convinced that no normal human being ever woke up one morning and said, “Dammit, my life doesn’t have enough petty bureaucratic rules, zero-tolerance policies, censorship, and fear in it. How do I fix that?” Instead, they let this stuff pile up, one compromise at a time, building up huge sores suppurating with spore-loaded fluids that eventually burst free and beslime everything around them. It gets normal to them, one dribble at a time.
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Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it’s the truth. It won’t go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.
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