David

“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery? Goldmines for gas stations, rehab centers, and divorce attorneys. If you were the GDP, your ideal citizen would be a compulsive gambler with cancer who’s going through a drawn-out divorce that he copes with by popping fistfuls of Prozac and going berserk on Black Friday. Environmental pollution even does double duty: One company makes a mint by cutting corners while another is paid to clean up the mess. By contrast, a centuries-old tree doesn’t count until you chop it down and sell it as lumber.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

“It was just what my old man always claimed about my mother after she took off- "If she had all of 'em stickin' out of her that's been stuck in her, she'd look like a fuckin' porcupine.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I hate that I have to spend half my life doing a job I hate for a boss I can't stand.'
'Haha, yeah, we live in a society.'
'The point isn't that we live in it, but that we built it. And we could just have easily built it differently.”
― James Stewart, Dinosaur Therapy