Anonymous ID: 466a49 May 28, 2020, 11:08 a.m. No.9347751   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>9347713

true

 

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful thingsโ€ฆThey began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

Anonymous ID: 466a49 May 28, 2020, 11:22 a.m. No.9347953   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

โ€œThey knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxley and Freud, all smiles. And then we discovered that Darwin and our religions didn't mix. Or at least we didn't think they did. We were fools. We tried to budge Darwin and Huxley and Freud. They wouldn't move very well. So, like idiots, we tried knocking down religion. We succeeded pretty well. We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answer to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are lost people.โ€

โ€• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

Anonymous ID: 466a49 May 28, 2020, 11:25 a.m. No.9347994   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>9347980

โ€œThe Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims. There was a reason for each man. They were leaving bad wives or bad towns; they were coming to find something or leave something or get something, to dig up something or bury something or leave something alone. They were coming with small dreams or large dreams or none at allโ€ฆit was not unusual that the first men were few. The numbers grew steadily in proportion to the census of Earth Men already on Mars. There was comfort in numbers. But the first Lonely Ones had to stand by themselvesโ€ฆโ€

โ€• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles