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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism

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“Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

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“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
― Tony Benn

tags: political, socialism

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“Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

tags: emotion, eroticism, imagination, mystique

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“Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I'm asking is: Have you ever actually believed it, believe it completely, believe not with your mind but with your body, actually felt that one day the fingers now holding this very piece of paper will be yellow and icy...?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: death, mortality

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Hard SF — 1205 members — last activity Jun 20, 2026 10:51AM
This is a discussion group for this specific subgenre in SF where the plausibility of the science counts.

Gay Science Fiction — 1964 members — last activity Jun 23, 2026 02:26PM
Hi. I decided since it was so hard to find other gay themed science fiction books I'd make this group. Please post M/M only themed books, though M/M/F ...more

Existentialism — 932 members — last activity May 29, 2026 10:36AM
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more

The New Weird — 301 members — last activity Feb 08, 2022 04:57PM
I am not starting this group because I feel I know a lot about the New Weird. Quite the contrary. I'm starting the group because I don't know much, bu ...more

ISMs Press — 66 members — last activity Apr 09, 2010 01:25PM
Publisher of quarterly magazine 'Sein und Werden' - an art and literary journal that seeks to merge the horrors of Expressionism, the dream qualities ...more

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