Thomas Moulson

“Think of fossil fuels that go into mining and smelting, manufacturing, transporting, and assembling a wind turbine before it starts pumping 'clean' electricity into the grid, and you begin to glimpse just how deeply wedded even the most ambitious plans for the future are implicated in the energy of the past.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“It makes a difference how you feel on this planet Earth: a citizen, a temporary tourist, or an exotic cast-away.”
― Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“Humans can withstand almost inconceivable stress—and you can too. So that is your first step: Gain perspective. And to do that you must do something critical in many situations: Detach. Whatever problems or stress you are experiencing, detach from them. Stress is generally caused by what you can’t control.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

“Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.”
― James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia