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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
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On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.
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Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience... Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away at ancient authorities and traditions. It has shown itself unable to coexist with anything.
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Scientists inevitably take on the mantle of the wizards, sorcerers and witch doctors. Their miracle cures are our spells, their experiments our rituals.
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The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Bryan Appleyard
Born:
August 24, 1951
(age 73)
Bio:
Bryan Appleyard is a British journalist and author.
Known for:
Understanding the present (1992)
The First Church of the New Millennium (1994)
Aliens: Why They are Here (2005)
Brave new worlds (1998)
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