Posted by sigismund on August 1, 2020, at 0:16:28
In reply to Demon Seed and Alien DNA, posted by sigismund on July 31, 2020, at 23:47:23
Know the song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5IUq-XBTI8
Kings? Not so much. We can always praise ourselves until we leave this place; no one else will, especially later.
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
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