“Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?”

Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 8 (“Elector”), p. 363

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