Peter Krauss > Recent Status Updates

“If you don’t act on what you believe in, you’re not going to live in the society you want to live in. And you can be effective. You can make change.” - Nancy Mullarkey.

“People without power tend to blame themselves for their weak situation; worse, they often actively defend the system that renders them powerless. Why? Because it sometimes can be more bearable to make excuses for the system and its inequities than to admit the possibility that you are truly without agency.

“There is no such thing as not voting. Not voting is voting — to hand power to others.”

“Power doesn’t corrupt character so much as it reveals it”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand” - Frederick Douglas

“Congress today is now driven by the policy preferences of wealthy individuals in corporations”

“Gnomes are short little assholes who deserve nothing but to be trampled to death and to be ripped apart by the feral geese.” 🔥✍🏼

Listening to the audiobook because it’s read by the author.

I’m reading this in tandem with the rise and fall of the third reich because that book is interesting but super biased so this one of gives a much more accurate perspective. But it’s very much written by a boring historian and isn’t as fun as ROTTR exposing Goebbels insecure diary writings on why his girlfriend hasn’t written him back.

Young Woody Harrelson

I love old sci fi because it’s like in the future year… 1992