“Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as “enlightenment.””
David Brin book Glory Season
Introduction to Chapter 20 (p. 364)
Glory Season (1993)
“Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.”
— Richard K. Morgan, book Altered Carbon
Source: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 16 (p. 215)
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