"Furthermore,” Harris said, “there is very little time. You have seen how quickly everything is breaking down, Joenes. The law is a farce; punishment has lost any meaning, and there are no rewards to offer; religion preaches its antiquated message to people walking a tightrope between apathy and insanity; philosophy offers doctrines that only other philosophers can understand; psychology struggles to define behavior according to standards which were dead fifty years ago; economics gives us the principle of an endless expansion, which is deemed necessary to keep up w’ith a maniacally increasing birthrate; the physical sciences show us how to keep up this expansion until every square foot is covered with a groaning human; and my own field of politics offers nothing better than ways of temporarily juggling these gigantic forces - juggling until everything breaks down or blows up.”
Это глава 9, THE NEED FOR THE UTOPIA, сразу после 8. HOW JOENES TAUGHT, AND WHAT HE LEAKNED (КАК ДЖОЭНИС ПРЕПОДАВАЛ В УНИВЕРСИТЕТЕ И ЧТО ОН ПРИ
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"Furthermore,” Harris said, “there is very little time. You have seen how quickly everything is breaking down, Joenes. The law is a farce; punishment has lost any meaning, and there are no rewards to offer; religion preaches its antiquated message to people walking a tightrope between apathy and insanity; philosophy offers doctrines that only other philosophers can understand; psychology struggles to define behavior according to standards which were dead fifty years ago; economics gives us the principle of an endless expansion, which is deemed necessary to keep up w’ith a maniacally increasing birthrate; the physical sciences show us how to keep up this expansion until every square foot is covered with a groaning human; and my own field of politics offers nothing better than ways of temporarily juggling these gigantic forces - juggling until everything breaks down or blows up.”
Это глава 9, THE NEED FOR THE UTOPIA, сразу после 8. HOW JOENES TAUGHT, AND WHAT HE LEAKNED (КАК ДЖОЭНИС ПРЕПОДАВАЛ В УНИВЕРСИТЕТЕ И ЧТО ОН ПРИ ( ... )
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