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WHEN I LEFT INDIA, I had my heart set on becoming a theoretical physicist. I was nineteen years old and had just graduated from Baroda University. It was customary to stay on to get a master’s degree in India before going abroad for a PhD,
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“You can’t stop the Dark Push.”
― The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
― The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
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Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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