Dee Turner

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”
― Mark Twain

“Concorde fallacy,” the conviction that it’s less wasteful to keep on throwing money into a failing project than to cut your losses and do something else.”
― John Michael Greer, Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead

“A glance back over our past shows clearly enough that who won, who lost, who ended up ruling a society, and who ended up enslaved or exterminated by that same society, was not determined by moral virtue or by the justice of one or another cause but by the crassly pragmatic factors of military, political, and economic power.”
― John Michael Greer, Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead

“Listen to the insults being flung around in the political controversies of the present day—the thieving rich, the shiftless poor, and the rest of it—and notice how many of them amount to claims that wealth that ought to belong to one group of people is being unfairly held by another.”
― John Michael Greer, Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead