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While Kaczynski wanted to demolish industrial society and return humanity to an agrarian life, US defense secretary Robert McNamara wanted the opposite: to use American industrial might to crush the agrarian society of Vietnam.

McNamara was a statistician who believed what couldn’t be measured didn’t matter. He charted progress in the Vietnam war by

Going, coming, sitting, standing, don't attach to anything. Affirming no direction, can there be leaving and entering?

(Master Niutou Farong)

A Fremen proverb from Dune by Frank Herbert :

"Be prepared to appreciate what you meet."

Source: Dune

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love.

These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.

(Naval Ravikant)

Every instant is the unpredictable, uncontrollable flowering of life.

(John Astin)

“No.” is a complete sentence. —Unknown

There was a monk in the Buddha’s time, it is said, who originally came from an extremely wealthy aristocratic family. Because he had lived a very pampered life, he was ignorant about some of the simplest things, which made him the object of much teasing by the other monks. One day they asked him, “Where does rice come from, brother?” He replied,