The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

[B]ecoming more rational, or not feeling the emotions of social slights, is not part of the human race... not with our current biology. There is no solace to be found from reasoning...

it is impossible for our brain to see anything in raw form without some interpretation. We may not even always be conscious of it.

Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient.” - The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. - You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. - With terminal disease, nature lets you die with abbreviated suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying. -