"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
-Jean Baudrillard
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"Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.“
-Jean Baudrillard
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
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"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
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"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
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"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
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"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."
-Jean Baudrillard
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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