And the hypercolony would lie. More precisely, it would say whatever advanced its interests. The distinction between truth and falsehood was irreleva… - Robert Charles Wilson

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And the hypercolony would lie. More precisely, it would say whatever advanced its interests. The distinction between truth and falsehood was irrelevant to the hypercolony, perhaps even imperceptible to it. It generated human language solely for the purpose of manipulating human behavior.

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About Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953) is a Canadian science fiction author.

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All the pious high-school bullshit about the Century of Peace had been revealed for what it was: as artificial as a plastic nativity scene and as hollow as a split piñata. The world was peaceful the way a drunken coed passed out at a frat party was peaceful: it was the peace that facilitated the fucking.

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