I don't want to offend people.
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.