Human Destruction Quotes

“With little to no choice, we are locked in a relationship of passive consumption, entertained in a circus not only while the world burns, but as we–with every push of a button–burn it ourselves. 'Humanity's self-alienation has reached to such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order,' Benjamin wrote. Videogames are extremely good at this.”
― Marijam Did, Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing Our World

“The library teaches us how to do this. Over and over again it has taught us enough to know how to burn our world to the bedrock, but not enough to stop us from doing so. There's a point that all societies reach.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“Water in this area was ubiquitous and posed a considerable threat of flooding, especially during the spring thaw when the Beskid Mountain gullies and streams started overflowing. Moreover, only the development of a system of drainage ditches could make possible the acquisition of new land suitable for farming or any other investment. For these reasons, a large part of the planning work regarding the Interessengebiet involved identifying the directions of water flow, demarcating the locations of new ditches and dykes and filling up (also with human ashes) the meandering oxbow lakes of the Vistula.”
― Piotr M.A. Cywiński, Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp