“No,” Morrow said. “I can’t accept that. I don’t always agree with the Planners. But they aren’t killers.”… — Stephen Baxter
“No,” Morrow said. “I can’t accept that. I don’t always agree with the Planners. But they aren’t killers.”
“You think not?” Uvarov laughed again. “The survivalists—your ‘Planners’—are psychotic. Of course. As I am. And you. We are a fundamentally flawed species. Most of humanity, for most of its history, has been driven by a series of mass psychotic delusions. The labels changed, but the nature of the delusions barely varied...”
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