Jake

“This is the intrinsic flaw, the infuriating circular logic. We operate under game theory conditions, under market forces, under the belief that we will lie to each other because someone else has more, and we have more to gain. And so we create solutions that further exacerbate this inequality. This is what happens when resources like food are treated as commodities to be bought and sold, to make money from, instead of a basic human right.”
― Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

“The mountains sat with their feet in the sea, and the old man’s house was on the knees.”
― John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

“He went to his own dark house and lighted the lamps and set fire in the stove. The clock wound by Elizabeth still ticked, storing in its spring the pressure of her hand, and the wool socks she had hung to dry over the stove screen were still damp. These were vital parts of Elizabeth that were not dead yet. Joseph pondered slowly over it. Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life.”
― John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

“she began to keep a journal because she saw that life had mystical qualities”
― Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing