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The Mindscape of Alan Moore -desi nu prea ma prind pe mine chestiile cu iz ocultist, tipul asta e foarte tare si are un discurs captivant.

Cam ce zice el pe-acolo (scos din context):

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis, I decided that it might actually be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself a magician. […] it seemed to be a logical end step in my career as a writer […] if you suddenly declare yourself to be a magician without any knowledge of what that entails, then one day you are likely to wake up and to discover that is exactly what you are.

Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art, that writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being, that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment, things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour while we’re waiting to die. It is not the job of artists to give audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they would not be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

The substance that has most effect upon our culture and upon our lives is completely invisible. We can only see its effects. This substance is information.
I was reading recently that people from the cutting edge of quantum physics believe that information is a “super weird substance” […] which underlies everything in the universe, which is more fundamental than gravity, or electro-magnetism or the two nuclear forces.