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… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

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And 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.
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Belief Fallen Fragile Problem Superstitious Upon
Science 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.
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Abstraction Littles Think Thinking Way
I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
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Ability Belief Beyond Evidence Human World
… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
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Fear Population Vantage Point
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Indifference Plague Saying Wracked
This 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.
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Compromise Hero Stupid World
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
Our 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.
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Century Different Men Our Uncover World
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
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Change Host Ideas Mutate Together
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.
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Believe Media Names
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence.
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Belief Fear Optimistic Problem Years
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
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Faces Mind Surprise Trying
I write with teenagers in mind.
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Mind Teenager Writing
In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Death Dying Ends
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions

… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

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… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

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