In the early 20th-century illustrations of Future Cities, amidst the gleaming towers and the lights that make day out of night, among the sweeping motorways full of countless automobiles as they wind through the vast manmade canyons -- you do not see a single train track.

You will see depictions of personal aircraft-automobiles in lanes of the sky, or, in works of a slightly earlier era, small lone prop airplanes. All manner of personal conveyance. But not one train track.

Plenty of space for automobiles! All the space, really, nothing left for anything else -- but think about what all that implies. That travel through this glorious shining city becomes crushingly lonely. Each individual is forced to navigate this maze alone, separated from every other by walls of steel and glass

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(This might help out someone who is having trouble writing something interesting and original about Nineteen Eighty-Four for a school report.)

In pre WW-II Britain and across the Commonwealth, ads for “Bennett College, in Sheffield” were a mainstay of the back pages of magazines, and sounded a clarion call among the ads for trusses, cures for bad breath, baldness and hæmorrhoids.

Men, aged 16-45! You need help!

The headline was styled after

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If Sam Harris and Robert Sapolsky are to be believed, our wills are merely the result of what came before. Everything has a prior cause and our actions are inextricably linked to what preceded it and that which preceded that is also governed by what came before and so on until the beginning of time.

Do our choices matter? Paradoxically, yes it still does since our choices also affects what will follow.

This is not to be mistaken for fatalism or an excuse to not make choices,

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