... science, being science, can only wage total war. No tra… - R. Scott Bakker

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... science, being science, can only wage total war. No traditional discourse has survived the scientific rationalization of their domain. All of them have been reduced to hokum, expelled from the courts, hounded from policy, from rationality altogether, and relegated to fantasy, which is to say, become commodities sold to balm the superstitious soul.

R. Scott Bakker

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Richard Scott Bakker (born February 2, 1967, Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian fantasy author.

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Alternative Names: Eärwa • Richard Scott Bakker

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The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

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