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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
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“Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multitasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed—some mechanism or myth that encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where “the long term” is measured at least in centuries.”
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as “temporal exhaustion”: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.”
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
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Ru’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ru’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
235 books
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89 friends
1,226 books
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20 friends
421 books
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10 friends
93 books
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1 friend
34 books
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34 friends
40 books
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9 friends
398 books
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4 friends
0 books
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113 friends
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