

“როცა ხალხს ამდენი მოღალატე შინა ჰყავს, მაკედონელიც ვერ გაამარჯვებინებს მას, პიპა.”
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.
Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.”
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Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.”
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“ყოველი საგანი მაშინ იწყებს წაქცევას, როცა წონასწორობას დაჰკარგავს იგი.”
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“თუ მთელმა ერმა გამარჯვება არ მოინდომა, მაკედონელიც ვერ უშველის, პიპა, რადგან ჯერ არსად გაუმარჯვნიან მშიშრებსა და მსტოვრებს.”
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა
― ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“She went through the quick regimen of calmness—the two deep breaths, the ritual thought, then: “When I assign rooms, is there anything special I should reserve for you?” “You must teach me someday how you do that,” he said, “the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing.” “It’s a female thing,” she said.”
― Dune
― Dune

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