Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of t…

Chuck Klosterman
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2014). I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), p.151, Simon and Schuster
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