Joshua Chavanne

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“As a general rule, privatization is legalized theft from the public realm.”
― George Monbiot, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism