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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

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Adam Curtis’ new documentary currently showing on BBC is All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.
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29. May 2011 by The Geecologist
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The Pale King

David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

They’ll either be grateful, or they’ll be frightened and avoid you from then on. Both reactions have their uses, as we’ll get to.
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01. May 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from David Foster Wallace written in 2011

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Cry, The Beloved Country

Because the white man has power, we too want power, he said. But when a black man gets power, when he gets money, he is a great man if he is not corrupted. I have seen it often. He seeks …
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22. June 2009 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Alan Paton written in 1948

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The Bridge

“you know,” he said, “if i had my way i wouldn’t let anybody who believed in star signs or the bible or faith healing or anything like that use electric power, or ride in cars and buses and trains and …
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20. December 2006 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Iain Banks written in 1986

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