The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name.
BERNARD BECKETTThe more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name.
BERNARD BECKETTThe only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
BERNARD BECKETTConsciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
BERNARD BECKETTWhich came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
BERNARD BECKETTOur world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.
BERNARD BECKETT… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
BERNARD BECKETTThe mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
BERNARD BECKETTThis is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.
BERNARD BECKETTIn the end, living is defined by dying.
BERNARD BECKETTAnd it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.
BERNARD BECKETTIn the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.
BERNARD BECKETTAre you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
BERNARD BECKETTHuman spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
BERNARD BECKETTScience is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
BERNARD BECKETTA society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
BERNARD BECKETTI try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
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