lainy on Nostr: > If I could go back in time, I might confront [Nietzsche] as follows: “I am a ...
> If I could go back in time, I might confront [Nietzsche] as follows: “I am a superman: hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience. As you recommend, I will achieve heroic glory by exterminating some chattering dwarves. Starting with you, Shorty. And I might do a few things to that Nazi sister of yours, too.”
—Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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