Tim Maughan > Quotes

“The pinnacle of human effort had been to create a largely hidden, superefficient, globe-spanning infrastructure of vast ships and city-size container ports—and all to do nothing more than keep feeding capitalism’s hunger for the disposable. To move plastic trash made by the global poor into the hands of hapless, clueless consumers. A seemingly unstoppable beast built from parasitic tentacles, clenching the planet with an iron grip.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“the hydroponic farms in the old buildings at the back of the Croft, the ones left over from before, the ones the old hippies used to grow their vegetables before the crash. When Grids took the Croft he put them all over to growing ganja, until he realized he could get a higher price growing herbs and spices—the things the Land Army didn’t provide through their tightly controlled rationing, the things everybody wanted. Illicit flavors, tastes, and smells.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“you can try to starve a population, deprive them of health care, power, and data, but you can’t stop them fucking.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“The pinnacle of human effort had been to create a largely hidden, superefficient, globe-spanning infrastructure of vast ships and city-size container ports—and all to do nothing more than keep feeding capitalism’s hunger for the disposable. To move plastic trash made by the global poor into the hands of hapless, clueless consumers.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“Good art is produced under strict limits.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“SkyNet is real, and it wants to sell you shoes made by child slaves.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“Your revolution, with no idea of what would happen next, just created a massive hole full of people fucking each other over to stay alive.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“This was why the supply chains existed, in order to make transactions that logic dictated were most efficient on local scales work on global ones, through sheer size, brute force, cheap labor, and global inequality.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“Rush thinks he might have shit himself. The guard comes through the door, all dark blue uniform and Oakley spex and something that Rush can’t decide is a truncheon or a baseball bat. “TAKE THE FUCKING SPEX OFF AND DROP THEM TO THE FLOOR DROP THEM NOW.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“Stars—always stars, some lone, some clustered—white stars on blue squares.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“Nobody else could ever craft melancholy out of reverb like that, breathe that much soul into ping-pong echoes.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“Yes, that’s right. We’re so young we don’t remember a time where there was no Internet,”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail

“will.” “Yeah, probably. I just wonder if actually this is all just bullshit, y’know? Like maybe our brains just ain’t designed to deal with networks. They’re not going to evolve to interface with millions of other people. They’re just not designed for that. And trying to force it just makes us angry and actually more alienated.” “I dunno. Didn’t they say the same about television?” “Yeah. Well.” He laughs. “Television fucked things up pretty bad. You remember advertising? Politics?” “Yeah. Good point.”
― Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail