Living thing, does Entropy, my wicked Aunt, notice our joint conspiracy? Not yet, I think, for you are yet too small. Your puny struggle against her … - David Brin
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Living thing, does Entropy, my wicked Aunt, notice our joint conspiracy? Not yet, I think, for you are yet too small. Your puny struggle against her tide is mere fluttering in a great wind. And she thinks I am still her ally.
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in Southern California and has been both a NASA consultant and a physics professor.
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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
We are programmed to find sex pleasurable for one simple reason—because animals who mate have offspring. Those who do not mate have none. Traits that result in successful reproduction get reinforced and passed on. Evolution is that simple. It is therefore useless to bemoan as evil the fact that men tend toward aggression. Among our ancestors, aggression often helped males have more offspring than their competitors. “Good” and “evil” had little to do with it. That is, until we reached consciousness, at which point, good and evil became pertinent indeed! Behaviors which might be excusable in dumb beasts can seem perverted, criminal, when performed by thinking beings. Just because a trait is “natural” does not oblige us to keep it.
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Mais les tyrans potentiels… ceux qui disposent d’une panoplie de méthodes éprouvées depuis des siècles pour manipuler l’homme du commun, pour lui mentir, pour lui ôter toute confiance en soi. On dit que « tout pouvoir corrompt », mais il serait plus proche de la vérité de dire que le pouvoir attire ceux qui sont susceptibles d’être corrompus. Les gens sains d’esprit sont, d’ordinaire, attirés par autre chose que par le pouvoir. Lorsqu’il leur faut agir, ils conçoivent leur action comme un service rendu, ce qui impose des limites à leur entreprise même. Le tyran, lui, veut dominer par tous les moyens ; il est insatiable dans la poursuite de son but.
