Atomised
Paperback edition
Prologue
This book is principally the story of a man who lived out the greater part of his life in Western Europe, in the latter half of the twentieth century. Though alone for much of his life, he was nonetheless closely in touch with other men. He lived through an age that was miserable and troubled. The country into which he was born was sliding slowly, ineluctably, into the ranks of the less developed countries; often haunted by misery, the men of his generation lived out their lonely, bitter lives. Feelings such as love, tenderness and human fellowship had, for the most part, disappeared; the relationships between his contemporaries were at best indifferent and more often cruel.
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While dominance and brutality are commonplace in the animal kingdom, among higher primates, notably the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) [mankind’s closest living relative] weaker animals suffer acts of gratuitous cruelty. [compare ‘teens' AKA ‘youths', Africans and such]. This tendency is at its greatest in primitive human societies and among children and adolescents in developed societies.
p. 51
From a moral standpoint, 1970 was marked by a substantial increase in the consumption of the erotic, despite the intervention of vigilant censors. The musical Hair, which was to bring the ‘sexual liberation’ of the 1960s to the general public, was a huge success. Bare breasts spread quickly across the beaches of the Riviera. In a few short months, the number of sex shops in Paris leapt from 3 to 45.
p. 55
As the lovely phrase ‘Hearth and Home' suggests, the couple and the family were to be the last bastion of primitive communism in a liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy the last unit separating the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.
—p. 136
Serotonin
Hardcover edition
I’m old now, and can’t really remember, but I think I was already afraid, and i’d understood, even then, that society was a machine for destroying love.
p. 149
Favorite Houellebecq book? I'm planning on making a best of video of his books since I've finally read them all, with the exception of his latest book which still hasn't been translated into English.
ATOMIZING the country, the state, the county, the city, the home, the family & the individual
Today they can incinerate a single home and nobody in the village will even care. The entire village will just say "Shit happens"
Well did you light the fires or not?
Only a moron would say that a space-based laser started the fires, its impossible for laser light to pass through the atmosphere, normal lasers ground based travel about 3 miles in the earth atmosphere before they lose all their energy.
So these fires were started by drones or weather-balloons hosting laser up to 3 miles up in the sky
Chinese have 'laser-cannons' handheld that are used to burn bird-nests off of high-tension wires, and they even make a coke-can 3LB 1 megawatt laser that can puncture & ignite an LPG tank from a drone;