A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.
“To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“the party was a hierarchy; you started at the bottom and moved up one step at a time—school board, city council, state assembly—and then if you had demonstrated lockstep team loyalty, the powers at the top would give you the party endorsement and its aid, and you were good to go. Had been that way for centuries. Outsiders did pop up to express various dissatisfactions, and occasionally some of them even overthrew the order of things and got elected, but then they were ostracized forever by the party and could get nothing done. They just wasted their time and whatever little money could be dredged up to support such quixotic tilts.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“history never ends, and good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“We’re only pretending everything is normal because we don’t know what else to do.”
― The Power
― The Power
“bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
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