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Truth is a human right.
Damn. Yes. Nothing has felt more relevant than this what a criticism of the current moment.
“They represent your own government,” he said. “Why are you afraid of your own government?”
I wonder.
The secretary was trying to keep his gaze on Ampersand, not Cora. “Here in America, we consider ourselves created equal. We stand on equal ground.” “Categorically untrue.” “He says he feels that’s dishonest,” said Cora flatly.
GO OFFFFFF
‘The human fascination with intelligent exoterran species focuses on their similarity to humans. Humanity is not prepared for any cultural, biological, or ideological disparities it may encounter. No species is. “‘One species is only comprehensible to another species as it understands itself. But with all species, there are attributes one possesses that the other does not share. Where attributes are not shared, inevitably both parties will try to shape the other into a form they can understand.’”
Aliens aside, this feels like the core to most of our tension as a society. The inability to reconcile differences, and only viewing others through the lens of understanding ourselves. It is colonization at its core.
This phenomenon is not unique to any one species. It is in the nature of all organisms, intelligent and non-intelligent alike, to understand other entities only through their own prism of existence. We understand each other only insofar as we understand ourselves.’”
“You are the civilization that disproves this axiom. You would be both the greatest discovery in the history of the Superorganism and the greatest threat to its conception of itself as divinely unique.”
We love a namesake moment.
“Trauma can cause cognitive impairment in all sapient species.”
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“Not just human morality. A fast-changing brand of morality, unique to this time, place, and culture. It will be a different morality a day from now. A year from now.”
Again, what an astute commentary on our society as a whole. Which, when scifi is done well, should always ring true.
