dystopians

In "1984" people are controlled by inflicting pain. In "Brave New World" people are controlled by inflicting pleasure. Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

minutia to the nature of the divine.

“A dim premonition tells us that we cannot be whole without this negative side, that we have a body which, like all bodies, casts a shadow, and that if we deny this body we cease to be three-dimensional and become flat and without substance."

- Carl Jung [1875-1961]

on other people

"Stop trying to change them; treat them like houseplants."

- Robert Greene [born 1959]

cultivate habits & skills to break free

 

"... this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.”

- Anton Chekov [1860-1904]

his most important novel

 

“How did you go bankrupt?"
"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961], The Sun Also Rises.which was published when he was 27.