Collin

“So the continued existence of these reactionary phenomena provides evidence that progressives are struggling against dark forces of titanic and unbounded strength.​ You have to be a bit of a reactionary yourself to see the truth: these institutions are simply a matter of reality.​ So it is reality itself that progressivism attacks.​ Reality is the perfect enemy: it always fights back, it can never be defeated, and infinite energy can be expended in unsuccessfully resisting it.”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“The voters, by themselves inconsiderable unities, acquire a value in the hands of dexterous agents.​ This value is realised by many means—mainly, by bribery in innumerable forms, from gifts of money and trifling articles, to the distribution of places in the services, the financial departments, and the administration.​ Little by little a class of electors has been formed which lives by the sale of votes to one or another of the political organisations.​”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“The people of the Wayward can choose what they share. Anyone can be whoever they want to be, at least among us. A person is who they prove to be, Leo, and neither you nor I can decide otherwise.”
― D.K. Holmberg, Chords of Fate

“Every choice you make will set you on a different path. I am hopeful that you will come to find the right path for you.” “How do I know?” “You won’t,” my mother had said. “But that is the beauty of life. It’s not the destination. We are all headed for the same destination,” she said, winking at me playfully, which I thought about later and thought was a little horrific, “but the journey is what matters.”
― D.K. Holmberg, Chords of Fate