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“We used to think we could own [the Internet], that we were fighting to build communities for ourselves. […] To stake a claim for a place we could control and belong […], but we were kidding ourselves. We never owned these spaces, we never could. […] Instead we watched our battles turn into spectator sports, our revolutions turn to infighting.”

“Dead cities bleed no light.”

“It baffles him, what brings these people to live in New York—a city filled with every culture, with every nation, a massive machine built from people and architecture, that gives birth to new cultures, new conflicts on every street corner, a city that every day fights with the future—what beings them here just to bed down in Brooklyn and create enclaves where they fetishize someone else’s past?”