Dreaming Though Awake

“and he was young and joyful and in love and his sweetie was here with him, and she loved him, too. All the world was theirs and bright with possibility. So it couldn’t last. Who the fuck cared?”
― Michael Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel

“Politics emerges as a mechanism for controlling violence, yet violence constantly remains as a background condition for certain types of political change. Societies can get stuck in a dysfunctional institutional equilibrium, in which existing stakeholders can veto necessary institutional change. Sometimes violence or the threat of violence is necessary to break out of the equilibrium.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

“I want to take this fucked up, piece of shit world, fuck it up even more and then give it a factory reset.”
― Eto Yoshimura

“Democracy basically means: Government by the people, of the people, for the people.... but the people are retarded.”
― Osho, آفتاب در سایه