A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
Byron
Identity has no meaning without society, and society has no meaning without the individual.
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
Ther is no tool that is not also a weapon; and no human that would wield it as one.
If humankind had no more cause for war, if would make war for sport instead.
1K: There will always be user error.
Melville: I think I could idiot proof this thing... but I do take your point. Pellegrino once almost killed himself with a bucket.
The truth cannot be pursued or uncovered, it can only be found where it has already taken root.
We live in a decaying system, which in turn produces ideologies of decay to justify its existence.
No matter what cultural signifiers they get packaged with, these ideologies come down to the same material result: a future in which for the average person there is less of everything. To paraphrase Mark Fisher, we find it easier to imagine the decline of civilization than to imagine a civilization worth living in.