“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.”
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.”
@boldlyblue01.bsky.socialWhat Makes a Society Truly Dystopian? #DystopianFiction #SocialCritique #PoliticalFiction