Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
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If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
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A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
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