“Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.”

— Stewart Brand , book Whole Earth Discipline

Whole Earth Discipline (2009), page 210.

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