“Jesus offered great hope. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The meek shall inherit the earth and ascend to the right hand of God. This, from the Sermon on the Mount, is the most radical social and political doctrine ever promulgated. Its soldiers were thousands, millions, of the meek, and it took the better part of three centuries for the Word to build up such a following that the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Calvin offered less hope than Jesus; Muhammad, more and less; Marx, more and more. The meek—‘ the proletariat’ he called them— shall inherit the earth now!… here!… and never mind waiting for Heavenly pie in the sky.”
— Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech

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Edited for simplicity. <span style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Wolfe does an amazing job outlining the history of all communication and understanding the root of why we do things the way we do.</span>

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