Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
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JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t... JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib... JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a... JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly. JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see. JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh... JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse w... JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte... JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r... JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr... JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,... JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster. JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into... JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork. JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi... JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ... JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. JONATHAN SWIFT