"The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology."
— J. G. Ballard

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in J. G. Ballard Quotes : Does The Future Have A Future? (2004) edited by V. Vale and Mike Ryan