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"If an animal spread plastic garbage all over the planet, we would certainly exterminate it."
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Piero Scaruffi
Piero Scaruffi is an Italian-American cognitive scientist, philosopher, cultural historian and writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published.
"If an animal spread plastic garbage all over the planet, we would certainly exterminate it."
"Question answers instead of answering questions."
"What we understand is not enough to understand why we understand it. (Signature line on his emails)"
"I really think we should modify the law so that one can be sued for defaming not only living people but also the memory and reputation of people who died centuries ago."
"Philosophy is the art of turning solutions into problems"
"The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation."
"Mass culture is a way to escape from the psychological suffering that comes with that insight into the human condition, an escape alternative to the one preached by world religions. Mass culture is a modern invention to escape from existential anguish."
"Trump is not an idiot at all, but those who voted for him are."
"We are swimming in the lake in which future generations will drown"
"The ones who do not wander are the ones who are truly lost"
"When the impossible happens, everybody has a very simple explanation for why it was inevitable"
"Philosophy is the art of saying something incredibly stupid and making it sound incredibly intelligent."