After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!