Laurence realized with a brief stab of guilt that he had scarcely given the dragonet a kind word before this. The convulsion of his life might be the creature’s fault, in some sense, but Temeraire was only obeying his nature, and to make
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“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced in that moment to confront the reality that so much of the American self-image demands a narrative in which his country plays the role of the rebel, the resistance, when at the same time every shred of contemporary evidence around him leads to the conclusion that, by scope and scale and purpose of violence, this country is clearly the empire. A central privilege of being of this place becomes, then, the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“But the word “radicalize” feels wrong, seems to imply an element of extremism, as though rage at this kind of blatant hypocrisy is the abnormal thing, when what is plainly abnormal is to accept it.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“The afflicted don’t need comforting, they need what the comfortable have always had.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“In a perfect world, politics is boring, informed by debate but assured of a mutual understanding that the civic good matters. It’s tree-cutting permits and public transport levies and people who go to school for years and years to learn how to best pass a thoroughfare through a residential area. Republicanism, in its current form, proposes the exact opposite—treason trials for political opponents, the stripping away of any societal covenant, a war on expertise. In the right-wing vision of America, every societal interaction is an organ harvest, something vital snatched from the civic body, sold for one kind of profit or another. It’s a vision that produces an almost unmatched clarity in the base, an unmatched loyalty: Which side of this operation do you want to be on?”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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