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The flag-bearer kept on changing, but the flag waved ceaselessly, like a perpetual pendulum, counting down the remainder of her short life.
He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body.
He seemed to have turned into nothing but a simple timer, a bell that tolled for he knew not whom.
He felt like the starry sky was a magnifying glass that covered the world, and he was a tiny insect below the lens with nowhere to hide. He had to find something to occupy himself.
and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert.… I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe. The universe was an empty palace, and humankind the only ant in the entire palace.
The sense of wandering in the spiritual wilderness tormented her. After she made a home with Yang, her soul became homeless.
This toy-box-like universe comforted Ye, and gradually it shifted from her imagination into her dreams.
A comforting thought indeed
“History! History! It’s a new age now. Who will remember us? Who will think of us, including you? Everyone will forget all this completely!”
These are the rules of the game of civilization: The first priority is to guarantee the existence of the human race and their comfortable life. Everything else is secondary.’
Onion-esque (has layers to think about)
But … it’s obvious now that everywhere is the same.” “Yes, that’s true. Everywhere, people are the same.”
Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the existence of a potential lover. Though the person could not see the potential lover’s face or figure, the knowledge that the other person existed somewhere in the distance created lovely fantasies about the potential lover that spread like wildfire.
Humans took more than a hundred thousand Earth years to progress from the Hunter-Gatherer Age to the Agricultural Age. To get from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age took a few thousand Earth years. But to go from the Industrial Age to the Atomic Age took only two hundred Earth years. Thereafter, in only a few Earth decades, they entered the Information Age. This civilization possesses the terrifying ability to accelerate their progress.
Stop making me blush
Everyone in the Battle Command Center saw the message in their eyes, just like Wang Miao’s countdown. The message flashed into existence for only two seconds and then disappeared, but everyone got it. It was only a single sentence: You’re bugs!
Oh fuckkkk you. May humanty rain fire upon you.
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Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.
