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For fuck sake, even politics and society have become ever more complicated and fucked up: totalitarianism is a product of the modern age, because you need so advanced of a technology in order to "totally" control the population.

'Yin and Yang of World Hunger'
By David Revoy

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أيها الليل، يا ملك المعجزاتِ الحقيقي! إنْ كان هناك ما هو مُعجِزٌ في قبرِ الطين فهو أنّه يجتذب الخاسرين وحولَه يكتشفون شراكتهم في هذا العُمرِ المحطّم، ثم يمضون تاركينه وراءَ ظهورهم وكأنّه لم يكن.

- الأعمى والأطرش، لـ غسان كنفاني

- Atlas d’anatomie humaine et de chirurgie, By J. M. Bourgery & N. H. Jacob

If this is not beautiful, I don't know what is

'Blood and Guts'
from Berserk

This abundance of free material on the internet, however, created a new form of scarcity—with so much to read, see, and hear, with the unending web of links, it became almost impossible to grab an audience’s attention. David Foster Wallace called the condition Total Noise. With it, our reading became less focused. Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” The poverty of attention, the inability to hold a reader’s attention for sustained time, that’s the crucial concept. It’s an existential problem for producers of knowledge—and a source of strain and confusion for consumers of it.

- World Without Mind