Once this was a free country. Oh, I always knew that couldn’t last, that here too things were bound to grind… — Poul Anderson
Once this was a free country. Oh, I always knew that couldn’t last, that here too things were bound to grind back to the norm—masters and serfs, whatever names they go by. And so far we continue happier than most of the world ever was. But damn, modern democracy has the technology to regiment us beyond anything Caesar, Torquemada, Suleyman, or Louis XIV dared dream of.
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It would annoy me less that we’re heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.
p. 330
Are you happy?
Your question is meaningless. I am occupied. I participate in operations, I am one with the accomplishments.
p. 426
I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.
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