Alexander Parker > Quotes

“The idea that you used to love going sailing with your brother-in-law Charles but now he’s come out as a Brexiteer/Remoaner and you can’t be friends is a very silly modern phenomenon, perhaps an indication that we have allowed politics to overwhelm everything else of importance in the online discourse. This may not be social media’s fault, but you’d have to be blind not to see how it exacerbates it all.”
― Alexander Parker, 50 People Who Messed up the World

“We’re just fussing over the details a little because never in the history of the world has one man attracted the resources that bin Laden did to track him down, never has an entire nation distilled their fear of the enemy into one man rather than the war machine around him, and never has the violent death of an individual been anticipated so long in advance.”
― Alexander Parker, 50 People Who Messed up the World