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“Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time.”
― Blizzard of One
Is becoming the architecture of the next time.”
― Blizzard of One

“We live, after all, in the present: the present is inevitably the context for our reaction and response, and it matters. Yet one of art鈥檚 most compelling features is how it showcases the disjuncts between the time of composition, the time of dissemination, and the time of consideration鈥攄isjuncts that can summon us to humility and wonder. Such temporal amplitude understandably falls out of favor in politically polarized times, in which the pressure to make clear 鈥渨hich side you鈥檙e on鈥� can be intense. New attentional technologies (aka the internet, social media) that feed on and foster speed, immediacy, reductiveness, reach, and negative affect (such as paranoia, anger, disgust, distress, fear, and humiliation) exacerbate this pressure.”
― On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
― On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“I personally recall that world, which you can only imagine was preferable to this one,' she said. 'Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.”
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“There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!”
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“When we critique our parents we forget that they are the result of a time where we were not present, we also forget that our children will do the same to us.”
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“Every new age has at its disposal everything that was fine in all past ages, and its greatness depends on how well it recognizes and preserves and brings to the aid of its own enlightenment whatever worthy and true things the dead have left on earth behind them.”
― America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928
― America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928

“... Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy...”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“Some words were considered absurd in the era they were said because those words were said for the people in the future eras!”
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