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In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about
time
we took it up again.
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I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long
time
, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are
times
when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are
times
when I can almost feel myself simply being.
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They'll lead us bit by bit toward the revolutionary idea that we've grown about as powerful as it's wise to grow; that the rush of technological innovation that's marked the last five hundred years can finally slow, and spread out to water the whole delta of human possibility. But those decisions will only emerge if people understand the
time
for what it is: the moment when we stand precariously on the sharp ridge between the human past and the posthuman future, the moment when meaning might evaporate in a tangle of genes or chips.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
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December 8, 1960
(age 64)
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