... 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.

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

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