Norman Spinrad - Illusion Quotes

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Social morality requires a shared matrix of communal reality to which to relate thought and deed, and the illusion of an objective ethical esthetic requires at the very least the conviction that objective reality is more than a contradiction in terms.

Norman Spinrad

True civilization consists precisely of conventions, rituals, and modes of oblique communication whereby the chaos within and the void without may be expressed and contained within the harmonious consensus of shared social objectivity, thus maintaining our bubble of crafted reality, the necessary illusion.

Norman Spinrad

Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?

Norman Spinrad