J. G. Ballard Quotes About Today
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Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
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I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.
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