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“But when I saw the price of water I nearly choked. In the last hour it had gone up tenfold. Buying some more information, I learned that there had been an attack, this time at a water treatment facility in Brookhurst. A corporation from a competing Karitzu paid a mercenary firm to blow it up, and raw sewage was now spilling into the aquifer.
My God! Did this happen before my shower? What about the toilet? Christ, I may have just blown six hundred caps on a single flush!
Hell, for the next few hours I couldn’t even afford to wash my hands.”
― The Water Thief
My God! Did this happen before my shower? What about the toilet? Christ, I may have just blown six hundred caps on a single flush!
Hell, for the next few hours I couldn’t even afford to wash my hands.”
― The Water Thief
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
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“Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from true conservatism, but authoritarianism offers potentially serious trouble for any democracy.”
― Conservatives Without Conscience
― Conservatives Without Conscience
“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”
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“The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame on the homosexuals, which would be amusing were it not so tragic. Families and 'family values' are crushed by grinding poverty, which also makes violent crime and drugs attractive alternatives to desperate young men and sends young women into prostitution. Family values are no less corrupted by the corrosive effects of individualism, consumerism, and the accumulation of wealth. Instead of shouting this from the mountain tops, the get-me-to-heaven-and-the-rest-be-damned Christianity the Christian Right preaches is itself a version of selfish spiritual capitalism aimed at netting major and eternal dividends, and it fits hand in glove with American materialism and greed.”
― What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
― What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
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