В этом перепрохождении поболтала с размороженным Полом как следует. И из этой болтовни я вынесла две вещи.

"It probably sounds like a lot of high-minded bullshit to an outsider. My thoughts exactly when JC started speaking in tongues after the merger. But the logic is compelling if you give it time."

Первая. Как теперь развидеть Пола, который кивал-кивал в ответ на объяснения Джей-Си, а потом, дождавшись, пока тот задремает, подкрался к нему, чтобы придушить подушкой, потому что Джей-Си одержим, его надо убить

И вторая.

"If you want to even out the social order, you have to change the nature of power itself, right? And what creates power? Wealth, physical strength, legislation - maybe - but none of those is the root principle of power. Ability. Ability is the ideal that drives the modern state. It's a synonym for one's worth, one's social reach, one's "election," in the Biblical sense, and it's the ideal that needs to be changed if people are to begin living as equals. The commodification of ability - tuition, of course, but, increasingly, genetic treatments, cybernetic protocols, now biomods - has had the side effect of creating a self-perpetuating aristocracy in all advanced societies. When ability becomes a public resource, what will distinguish people will be what they do with it. Intention. Dedication. Integrity. The qualities we would choose as the bedrock of the social order."

Я по разным причинам влюблялась в персонажей: из-за их остроумия, красоты, образа жизни, профессии, оптимизма, энергии, смелых решений, фантазии... Но кажется, впервые полюбила персонажа в первую очередь за его политические взгляды У мира нет Пола Дентона, и поэтому его пришлось выдумать.

Плюс Джей-Си его заразил, наконец, не только своими грандиозными планами по перекройке мирового политического порядка, но и оптимизмом.

"The last century was ruled by progress and novelty for their own sake. This one has a chance to be ruled by purpose."

"There was a time when the details of governmental structure inspired lofty debates. The empowerment of the judicial branch in the Unite States, an independent legislature, an elected executive... all the innovations that were eventually taken for granted by our ancestors."

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