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Category: Norman Spinrad

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Culture, World, Me

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

We shall give up the things of childhood — gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

inspirational, science-fiction

Kiss me, and you’ll live forever. You’ll be a frog, but you’ll live forever.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

It ain’t power that corrupts, it’s the changes you put your head through getting it.

[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

faking-it, power

It ain’t power that corrupts, it’s the changes you put your head through getting it.

[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

faking-it, power