7. ”There is a contrast between a social
order which--being based upon
consensus of wills--rests on harmony
and is developed and ennobled by
folkways, mores, and religion, and an
order which--being based upon a union
of rational wills--rests on convention and
agreement, is safeguarded by political
legislation, and finds its ideological
justification in public opinion.”
28. ”Networks became the most
efficient organizational forms as a
result of three major features of
networks [...]: flexibility,
scalability and survivability.”
49. The essence of the party: face-to-face, a
group of humans synergize their efforts to
realize mutual desires, whether for good food
and cheer, dance, conversation, the arts of
life; perhaps even for erotic pleasure, or to
create a communal artwork, or to attain the
very transport of bliss-- in short, a "union of
egoists" (as Stirner put it) in its simplest
form--or else, in Kropotkin's terms, a basic
biological drive to "mutual aid."
68. “What is remarkable here, and unique, is the
fact that endogenous retroviruses are two
things at once: genes and viruses. And those
viruses helped make us who we are today just
as surely as other genes did. I am not certain
that we would have survived as a species
without them.” T Heidmann
69. “Viruses may well be the
unseen creator that most
likely did contribute to
making us human.”
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