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“You may think these streets are yours to walk, but they belonged to someone else before: the queers, the hobos, the junkies, the trannies, the prozzies - those streets were theirs before they were yours so be careful, you may find you have to wipe your shoes clean before going into your nice apartment.”
― Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

tags: classism, elitism, entitlement, gentrification, history

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“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: corruption, government, ideology, magnetism, mythology, politics, power, religion, science-fiction

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“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
― Tony Benn

tags: political, socialism

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“Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I'm asking is: Have you ever actually believed it, believe it completely, believe not with your mind but with your body, actually felt that one day the fingers now holding this very piece of paper will be yellow and icy...?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: death, mortality

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“Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

tags: freedom, nature

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Hard SF — 1181 members — last activity Jul 01, 2025 02:53PM
This is a discussion group for this specific subgenre in SF where the plausibility of the science counts.

Gay Science Fiction — 1924 members — last activity Jun 15, 2025 06:31PM
Hi. I decided since it was so hard to find other gay themed science fiction books I'd make this group. Please post M/M only themed books, though M/M/F ...more

Existentialism — 927 members — last activity Jan 03, 2021 11:51AM
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more

The New Weird — 301 members — last activity Feb 08, 2022 04:57PM
I am not starting this group because I feel I know a lot about the New Weird. Quite the contrary. I'm starting the group because I don't know much, bu ...more

ISMs Press — 66 members — last activity Apr 09, 2010 01:25PM
Publisher of quarterly magazine 'Sein und Werden' - an art and literary journal that seeks to merge the horrors of Expressionism, the dream qualities ...more

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