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وَقَالُوا مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ [سورة الجاثية]

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والعرب كان من شأنها أن تذمَّ الدهرَ وتسبَّه عند الحوادث والنوازلِ تنزل بهم من موتٍ أو هَرمٍ فيقولون: أصابتهم قوارِعُ الدَّهر وحوادثُه، وأبادهم الدَّهرُ، فيجعلون الدهرَ الذي يفعل ذلك، فيذمّونه.

Hesiod was composing poetry at around the same time as Homer [8th century B.C.]. In his 'Works and Days' he writes: «I wish I did not have to live among the people of the Fifth Age [the Iron Age], but either had died earlier or been born later. For now truly is a generation of iron who never rest from labour and sorrow by day or from perishing by night … But, notwithstanding the good mingled with their evils … [this generation] will know no favour for those who keep their oath or for the just or for the good … strength shall be right … the wicked will hurt the worthy … bitter sorrows will be left for us mortals, and there will be no help against evil». According to Hesiod, iron hardened not only our ploughs but also our souls. Under its influence, our spirit was hammered and forged in fire, our brand-new desires quenched like the hissing metal in the smith’s cauldron. Virtues were tested and values destroyed just as our bounty burgeoned and our estates expanded. Strength begat new joys but weariness and injustices too. Zeus would have no choice, Hesiod foretold, but to one day destroy a humanity incapable of restraining its own, technologically induced, power. — Technofeudalism, by Yanis Varoufakis

Hesiod was composing poetry at around the same time as Homer [8th century B.C.]. In his 'Works and Days' he writes: «I wish I did not have to live among the people of the Fifth Age [the Iron Age], but either had died earlier or been born later. For now truly is a generation of iron who never rest from labour and sorrow by day or from perishing by night … But, notwithstanding the good mingled with their evils … [this generation] will know no favour for those who keep their oath or for the just or for the good … strength shall be right … the wicked will hurt the worthy … bitter sorrows will be left for us mortals, and there will be no help against evil». According to Hesiod, iron hardened not only our ploughs but also our souls. Under its influence, our spirit was hammered and forged in fire, our brand-new desires quenched like the hissing metal in the smith’s cauldron. Virtues were tested and values destroyed just as our bounty burgeoned and our estates expanded. Strength begat new joys but weariness and injustices too. Zeus would have no choice, Hesiod foretold, but to one day destroy a humanity incapable of restraining its own, technologically induced, power. — Technofeudalism

جان ضايج لأن فلوس الرومان دتنصرف على التماثيل الهندية والمواعين الصينية والبخور العربية

At the very lowest computation, India, China, and the Arabian Peninsula withdraw from our empire one hundred million sesterces (a Roman coin) every year—so dearly do our luxuries and women cost us. — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia

By Fernand Pelez

ويقال: إنّ الخليل كان له ولد مختلف، فدخل على أبيه يومًا فوجده يقطع بيت شعرٍ بأوزان العروض، فخرج إلى الناس وقال: إنّ أبي قد جُنّ، فدخلوا عليه وأخبروه بما قال ابنه، فقال مخاطبًا له: لو كنتَ تَعلَمُ ما أقولُ عَذَرتَني أو كنتَ تَعلَمُ ما تَقولُ عَذَلتُكا لكن جهلتَ مَقالتي فعَذَلتَني وعلمتُ أنّك جاهلٌ فعَذَرتُكا وقد روي عنه أنّه أنشد: يقولونَ لي دار الأحبةِ قد دَنَت وأنتَ كئيبٌ، إنّ ذا لَعَجيبُ فقلتُ: وما تُغني الديارُ وقُربُها إذا لَم يَكُن بينَ القلوبِ قريبُ — وفيات الأعيان لابن خَلِّكان

— The Machinery of Life, by David S. Goodsell

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