matthew r. dobson

“accelerated culture does not respond well to the nonobvious.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

“If you're not making art with the intention of having it copied, you're not really making art for the twenty-first century.”
― Anonymous

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Modern war is distinguished by the fact that all the participants are ostensibly unwilling. We are swept towards one another like colonies of heavily armed penguins on an ice floe. Every speech on the subject given by any involved party begins by deploring even the idea of war. A war here would not be legal or useful. It is not necessary or appropriate. It must be avoided. Immediately following this proud declamation comes a series of circumlocutions, circumventions and rhetoricocircumambulations which make it clear that we will go to war, but not really, because we don’t want to and aren’t allowed to, so what we’re doing is in fact some kind of hyper-violent peace in which people will die. We are going to un-war.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World