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Stilt overfor en grunnleggende ødelagt verden innebar større empati dypere lidelse.

Ingen er fullkommen, pleide hun å si. Men jammen kommer vi vakkert til kort.

Hver og en av oss er et eksperiment, og vi vet ikke en gang hva eksperimentet skal undersøke.

Pussig nok finnes det ikke noe navn i DSM for trangen til å diagnostisere folk.

Is there intelligence? my son asked. Is anything aware?
I told him no. Nothing on Stasis needed to remember much or predict much further out than now. In such steadiness, there was no great call to adjust or improvise or second-guess or model much of anything.
He thought about that. Trouble is what creates intelligence?
I said yes. Crisis and change and upheaval.
His voice turned sad and wondrous. Then we’ll never find anyone smarter than us.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts’ daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.