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I'm only three chapters into this but it's absolutely fascinating stuff so far. I love books on the craft!

Even when no one listens, poets must speak the truth or lose their language.

"technological 'progress' and the modern wage-slavery accompanying it offered a new stability to representative government, owing essentially to its magnified powers for suppressing the individual."

"technological 'progress' and the modern wage-slavery accompanying it offered a new stability to representative government, owing essentially to its magnified powers for suppressing the individual."

Section 83 explains exactly my issues with both big "s" Socialism and positivism in general: "Their grasp of reality thus lagged far behind the historical reality of the development of science itself, which had been largely oriented by the social requirements arising from such factors, which determined not only what findings were acceptable, but even what might or might not become the object of research."

"It is profoundly naive for people who work to prevent planetary devastation to speak of the computer as if it were neutral; as if it were as useful for decentralization as it is to centralized interests. Large institutions that seek the latter benefit far more than the do-gooders who plan to use the computer for high-tech jujitsu."

The final dream of civilization is that everything will be controlled, organized, categorized; all wildness and spontaneity will be eradicated. Fish will live in fish farms. Trees will grow in tree farms. Animals for our food will live in feedlots. Humans will live in cities completely isolated from anything that mind remind them of true wild nature. "Inferior races" will within in poverty until they vanish.

Above us in the high places the mist formed, watery molecules arriving from distant spheres of the oceans and atmosphere, converging briefly before continuing their long separate journeys. The rain was soft and warm, a summer spray to cloud one's glasses, or roll down the face like a child's teardrop, and mix with the perspiration born of a hard climb. It was the kind of friendly rain to remind you the earth is good.

People who say that Obama is a socialist dictator leading us towards the USSR should really have a read in this book and realize how utterly insulting it is to those millions of people who suffered and died in the real Gulags.