John Brunner
John Brunner
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ambition people resentment
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
military epidemics race
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
data impact truth-is
For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.
opportunity ideas giving
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
stupid war responsibility
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
way casting should
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
children long rich
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
your-side sides would-be
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
want environment automobile
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.
imagination christ
Christ, what an imagination I've got!
stress kind share
Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
firsts machines use
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
trouble excuse explaining
Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
labels
I'm myself, not a label.