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Liar's Poker
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The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention.
“many of us have been convinced that we carry the darkness within us, in our selfish genes. “It is simply human nature,” we’re told, “to rape and kill and enslave—and anyone who thinks otherwise is a foolish romantic.” This messaging not only offends our decency and dignity, it insults our intelligence. The depiction of human nature embedded in the NPP isn’t science; it’s a marketing campaign for the status quo.”
― Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
― Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
“In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.”
― Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
― Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
“And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.”
― Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
― Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
“The NPP insists that we venerate the crooks, rapists, and pillagers credulous historians have repackaged as “founders,” “conquerors,” and “civilizers.” We erect statues and consecrate tombs to commemorate their difference-making. But in fact, most of these monuments memorialize the dark deeds of unhinged lunatics driven by rampant ego and raving greed.”
― Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
― Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
“Upon his first encounters with the native people he “discovered” in the West Indies, Columbus was struck by their kindness, generosity, and physical beauty. In a letter to the king and queen of Spain, he explained: “They are very simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he may possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves.” In his own journals, he was even more complimentary: “They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest—without knowledge of what is evil—nor do they murder or steal… they love their neighbors as themselves and they have the sweetest talk in the world… always laughing.” A few pages on, in one of the most chilling pivots in recorded history, Columbus wrote: “They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
― Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
― Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
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