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Gideon the Ninth
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Jason Pargin
“And there’s the anger. People hate it when you threaten their nihilism! That’s the black box, drawing you back in. Can’t you see that it wants you to be afraid to do anything but cower in front of your screens? It only has one trick, one card to play, which is this idea that bad news is the only news you can trust. I’m telling you, if you just allow yourself to step outside of it, you’ll see it for what it is: a prison where the walls are made of nightmares.”
Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Jason Pargin
“So that’s two groups who both believe the world is ending, but for totally opposite reasons. Some say runaway capitalism, some say runaway socialism. Some say it’ll be chaotic lawlessness, some say iron-fisted authoritarianism. It’s like I have one panicked neighbor saying there’s an impending drought and another screaming that we’re all about to drown in a flood. Somebody has to be wrong.”
Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Jason Pargin
“nothing ruins your view of the world like getting your dream job.”
Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Jason Pargin
“And people like you and me and others in our demographic describe that state of affairs as the world being ‘on fire.’ I think that’s a bizarre mass delusion and that there’s a very specific reason for it: we’ve been trained to cling to a miserable view of the world to the point that we think that not seeing the world as miserable makes us bad people.”
Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Jason Pargin
“That’s what you’ll find out here in the wastelands. Almost all of these people are just like you. They want to do the right thing, and every morning, they wake up and go do it. Every. Single. Day.”
Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

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