Amerikali bilim kurgu roman ve kisa hikaye yazari Philip Kindred Dick’in olum yildonumu ( 2 Mart 1982 )
" Bizi huzursuz ve tatminsiz yapan vahsi bir icgudu degil. Size ne oldugunu soyleyeyim; bizi boyle yapan insanoglunun en yuce amaci. Buyume ve ilerleme ihtiyaci. . . yeni seyler bulma. . . yayilma. Yayilma, baska deneyimlere, baska yerlere ulasma ihtiyaci. Anlama ve surekli degisecegi bicimde yasama ihtiyaci. Rutini ve tekrari bir kenara itmek, anlamsiz tekduzelikten kendini kurtarmak ve ileriye atilmak. Surekli hareket halinde olma ihtiyaci. . . "
“ It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . . ”
“ Liderlik isi bu toplumda dogal olarak paranoyaklara kalacaktir.Tabii maniklerin darbe yapmasini engellemekte zorlanacaklardir. Ama asil sorun su ki, paranoyaklarin ideolojiyi belirledigi bir toplumda, egemen duygusal tema nefret olacaktir. Liderler kendileri disindaki herkesten nefret edecek ve geri kalan herkesin de kendilerinden nefret ettigini var sayacaktir. Dolayisiyla tum sozde disisleri politikalari, onlara yoneltilen bu varsayimsal nefretle savasmanin mekanizmalarini insa etmek uzere kurulacaktir. Bu da tum toplumun hayali bir mucadeleye cekilmesi,var olmayan dusmanlara karsi, hiclige karsi zafer kazanilmasi demektir. ” Alfa Ayinin Kabileleri
“ Leadership in this society here would naturally fall to the paranoids, they'd be superior individuals in terms of initiative, intelligence and just plain innate ability. Of course they'd have trouble keeping the manics from staging a coup. . . there'd always be tension between the two classes. But you see, with paranoids establishing the ideology, the dominant emotional theme would be hate. Actually hate going in two directions; the leadership would hate everyone outside its enclave, and also would take for granted that everyone hated it in return. Therefore their entire so-called foreign policy would be to establish mechanisms by which this supposed hatred directed at them could be fought. And this would involve the entire society in an illusory struggle, a battle against foes that didn’t exist for a victory over nothing. ”
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