I came across this in John Naughton’s Brief History of the Future:

“most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.”

These are the four maxims that guide Ted Nelson, the ‘father of hypertext’, and they’ve been bouncing around my brain today. Reading them the first time, I found the words almost disturbing in their bleakness.

But things got even more disturbing as I realized I agreed that many people are fools, most authority is malignant, and many things are wrong. I do believe in some organizing force in the universe, but not in God as a Father Christmas-like figure with simpler dress sense and a keen sense of megalomania.

This can’t be my world view, too.

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