Status Updates From The Dispossessed

“And yet, I wonder if it isn't all a misunderstanding—this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain.... If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could... get through it, go beyond it. There is something beyond it. It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self-ceases.”

Ooooh I think I’m gonna like this book

You fear we might bring back the revolution, the old one, the real one, the revolution for justice which you began and then stopped half-way. Here in A-Io they fear me less because they have forgotten the revolution. They don’t believe in it any more, they think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want the walls down.

"Members of a community, not elements of a collectivity, they were not moved by mass feeling; there were as many emotions there as there were people."

Time for a re-read!

“Hasn’t your man been in yet?” said Pae.
“My man?”
“The servant. He was supposed to bring you some things.”