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Memo written in 2016 by Andrew Bosworth:
"So, we connect more people. That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing them to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack, coordinated on our tools. And still, we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good."

As the Indian literary theorist Gayatri Spivak wrote in 2012: "Globalization takes place only in capital and data. Everything else is damage control." 

'Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?' - Clarice Lispector

Quoting Housekeeping:
"There is so little to remember of anyone...an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again...written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home and...will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long."

"It is easy to forget to look at a tree..."

Chapter 10: Earthbound: On Solid Ground
Reminders from nature: man is no god (regardless of the power they hold), interconnectedness of all, humility and grace, "this too will pass", awe and wonder.