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:—Lauren Oyler, ''London Review of Books''}} | :—Lauren Oyler, ''London Review of Books''}} | ||
{{quote|“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. | |||
Stiffen your sinews if you hear this one. | Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.” | ||
:—{{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}} | |||
Stiffen your sinews if — ''when'' — you hear this one. This time it is different. This time | |||
So the strangest thing about the “this time it's different” crowd is how closely they map to the [[reductionist]]s, who believe in a [[determinism|determinist]], [[algorithm]]ic recurring, predictable universe of the kind where things definitively will ''not'' be different. | So the strangest thing about the “this time it's different” crowd is how closely they map to the [[reductionist]]s, who believe in a [[determinism|determinist]], [[algorithm]]ic recurring, predictable universe of the kind where things definitively will ''not'' be different. | ||