“Doesn’t take much sense to know you shouldn’t live in a place if you have to carry a gun.”
― The Jesus Incident
― The Jesus Incident
“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“There is a special problem in communications theory. We call it ‘narrative collapse’. When a planet is very connected, a time inevitably arrives when it becomes difficult to work out what is actually going on. Video and audio can be faked. Testimony isn’t reliable. All truths fall into a relative flatness.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science
“Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science
“[..] I learned there [in Mostar] that the distance between civilization and savagery is exceedingly small and this has scared me ever since.”
― The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
― The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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