Human beings are superhuman.
I'd prefer to think that this is encouragement, rather than hubris, but it's hard to tell.
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- Sep 2018
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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These acts are forms of sacrifice.
It's always the people who don't actually care that say these things.
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Your voluntary service is the highest form of patriotism.
To an extent.
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“We ask of you an impossible combination of traits: ironclad scruples and a willingness to violate them;
Reminds me of doublethink from 1984. And not necessarily in a good way.
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electricliterature.com electricliterature.com
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They just weren’t paying attention.
Not that this is better in any regard.
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I speak, therefore I am.
Be careful with that theory.
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It’s an ear for listening, and a mouth for speaking.
Surprised they made an ear at all.
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If humans are looking for a connection with a nonhuman intelligence, what more can they ask for than that?
Really leads you to wonder if we actually want to find what we're looking for, or are simply too taken with the overly-romantic idea of intelligence in the stars.
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