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SAGAN
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.”
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HUXLEY
Aldous Huxley to write his book Brave New World in 1931. He imagined a world in which people had the capacity to eradicate their negative experiences by taking ‘soma’ (a substance that is eerily similar to modern-day antidepressant medication). Those living in this brave new world could eradicate all their discomfort, yet it was exactly this capacity that Huxley believed made the society he wrote about dystopian. He believed such an existence would have been freakishly banal and bereft of any real meaning. A life free of any suffering at all would be without distinction, without edges, and without variation. A world without pain would be torturous indeed.
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