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It's strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of.

— Terence McKenna Technopagans at the End of History (1998)

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If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

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