What they had going certainly came as near as anyone ever has in this imperfect world to a sane, rational way for people to exist without warfare and… - John Varley
" "What they had going certainly came as near as anyone ever has in this imperfect world to a sane, rational way for people to exist without warfare and with a minimum of politics. In the end, those two old dinosaurs are the only ways humans have yet discovered to be social animals. Yes, I do see war as a way of living with one another; by imposing your will on another in terms so unmistakable that the opponent has to either knuckle under to you, die, or beat your brains out. And if that’s a solution to anything, I'd rather live without solutions. Politics is not much better. The only thing going for it is that it occasionally succeeds in substituting talk for fists.
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John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947, in Austin, Texas) is an American science fiction author.
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