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Originally posted by Cyan_Blizzard
But dwelling on the past doesn't do us any good
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Says who? We learn from our mistakes, our mitsakes are in the past. There is even a human emotion for it which actually makes us long for the past - nostalgia.
And anyway, if the past was good, you'd sure as hell want to dwell on and remember it.
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"Are we not threatened with a flood of information? And is this not the monstrousness of it: that it crushes beauty by means of beauty, and annihilates truth by means of truth? For the sound of a million Shakespeares would produce the very same furious din and hubbub as the sound of a herd of prairie buffalo or sea billows."
—Stanisław Lem, Imaginary Magnitude (1973)
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