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Jason K. Stearns
Born
in San Francisco, The United States
October 31, 1976
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“Such is the human being: when he is afraid, he sees enemies everywhere and thinks the only chance to stay alive is to exterminate them.”
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
“Mobutu’s kleptocracy had reversed the flow of time in the town, as buildings crumbled and the jungle reclaimed land. The novelist V. S. Naipaul portrayed the demoralizing aura of the city in his 1979 book, A Bend in the River: The big lawns and gardens had returned to bush; the streets had disappeared; vine and creepers had grown over broken, bleached walls of concrete or hollow clay brick. . . . But the civilization wasn’t dead. It was the civilization I existed in and worked towards. And that could make for an odd feeling: to be among the ruins was to have your time sense unsettled. You felt like a ghost, not from the past, but from the future. You felt that your life and ambition had already been lived out for you and you were looking at the relics of that life.”
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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