Mike Bockoven > Quotes

“If he showed up on a desert island with a sandwich and a rescue boat, most people would try to beat him to death with the sandwich.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“it’s that a person gets stupid when they become people. They are easily convinced of things.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“A bit of well-placed profanity never goes awry if you pick your spot with care. Stephen King novels taught me that.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Most Americans aren’t too happy asking for help, to be honest with you. It’s part of our national character.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate people. some persons, individual persons, I like and love, but when you get eight or more together in a group, I hate that. I mean HATE that. I hate cliques, I hate crowds, and the only reason i got anywhere in retails is that I was always moving around. I had a purpose. My idea of hell is being one of those people in the middle of those crowd shots you see in concerts, you know, where fifteen thousand people are watching some band or something. But it's not just the number of bodies; it's that a person gets stupid when they become people. They are easily convinced of things. So I guess if my story had a heading, like, in your book, it might be "How Clara stopped hating people because they started doing what she said," Or something less wordy that doesn't make me sound like a controlling bitch.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“but in disasters, people react differently. It’s not uncommon for people to focus on one thing they can control amid a sea of chaos and hyperfocus on that one thing.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“it’s that a person gets stupid when they become people.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“To think our young people are capable of what we saw chills the blood for a very long time.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“He could have saved a baby from a burning building on national TV, and it wouldn’t have made a dent in how much people hated him. If he showed up on a desert island with a sandwich and a rescue boat, most people would try to beat him to death with the sandwich.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Fear, I’ve learned, is never a good place from which to operate,”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“People were civil and were helping each other. The weak got help first. It was the best of America. Then you’d go to the next location and it would be out-and-out looting and every man for himself.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“FUCK YOU FOR PISSING ON MY DREAM.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“People want to make this out to be a great American failing, but try this experiment: Take one hundred kids from that age group from any country, separate them on islands, give them the cocktail of constant affirmation and stimulation these kids were getting pumped through their brains, and one hundred times out of one hundred you have bloodshed. I guarantee it. Put yourself in the shoes of any of these kids, with their peers yelling “kill or be killed” in their ear, coaxing them, begging them to swing that sword or shoot that arrow or … or stab that other kid tied up and …”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“There are times in life where unpleasant things are happening, and if you don’t fight you might as well be meat.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“When you are used to constant stimuli and then have it taken away with nothing to replace it, people act in all sorts of interesting ways.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“When you have places screaming for help and news helicopters flying over and getting hours and hours and hours of footage of the job you’re not doing, it becomes very easy to let lower priorities slide down the list.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“intense boredom punctuated by moments of absolute terror.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I know folks like that, who have no sense of the greater good, you know? Whose agenda is the only thing that matters.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I’m going to kick him in the fucking nuts.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Then we waited. A wise man once said it’s the hardest part.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I kind of hate people. Seriously, I’ve thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn’t, “I’m not a people person,” or something like that. It’s that I hate people. Some persons, individual persons, I like and love, but when you get eight or more together in a group, I hate that. I mean, hate that. I hate cliques, I hate crowds, and the only reason I got anywhere in retail is that I was always moving around. I had a purpose. My idea of hell is being one of those people in the middle of those crowd shots you see in concerts, you know, where fifteen thousand people are watching some band or something. But it’s not just the number of bodies; it’s that a person gets stupid when they become people. They are easily convinced of things.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“If she was so afraid and so traumatized by my act of mercy; why didn't she stop me?”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“He was creative in the least fertile environment you can think of for an artist, but what that upbringing accomplished was to make him single-minded & absolutely sure of his vision.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“know folks like that, who have no sense of the greater good, you know? Whose agenda is the only thing that matters.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“Either way, a second after we had that moment, I beat her to death with my metal baseball bat. I didn't stop until her head was in a very different shape from when I started.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“To this day, I don't know where it stopped. I would guess somewhere in the Fantastic Folks from History ride, based on the big fucking hole in the side of its facade, but that's just a guess.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“There's a lot of dark around here with no power" And of course he meant it two ways”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“It was no longer FantasticLand, now it was Slaughter Land or Brock Hockney Did This At This Place Land. It wasn't FantasticLand. Sadie blew her away, and those kids dug the grave where she landed.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“nothing pisses off a historian more than seeing context thrown out the window because people were too lazy to ask questions.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

“I've talked to my therapist about it, and she suggested I was so happy to have power over anything that I took full advantage of the situation. That's a small consolation after you've felt your fist break a poor girl's cheekbone.”
― Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand