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You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
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The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
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In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.
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But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live
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You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Daniel Quinn
Born:
October 11, 1935
Died:
February 17, 2018
(aged 82)
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