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For someone fortunate enough to be born, wearing the boot the capacity for mercy may well extend to how hard one chooses to step on the neck that anyone should take off the shoe entirely walk away from the site of the trampoline is unthinkable.

The machine swallows, life, and spits out convenience.

How does anything else matter? The fear of losing some comfort collide with a different fear. A fear that any society functioning demands One ignore the carnage of the scale for the sake of artificial Norma normalcy is by definition sociopathic

A chasm has developed; On one side is a portion of society that fears nothing more than the discontinuation of normalcy. That believes regardless of horror what matters most is to live as one lived before answering emails, and meeting deadlines, maintain productivity. on the other, witnessed the horror is simply unable to live as they did before how does one live having hearing the screams, witnessing the bodies?

Southern evangelical Christianity Evolved beyond the biblical literalism defending Jim Crow in the 1950s and colorblind familiar protectionism 1970s insulated their subculture. While the 1964 civil rights act & 1965 voting rights act forced transformation of the broader southern Society. evangelical’s claim religious liberty & their private school, church buildings provided safe Harbor for continued segregation.

Biblically inspired segregationist Christianity of the Southern evangelicals evolved and persisted in form became mainstays by the 1970s. colorblind individualism and heightened focus on the family.

I exist, I exist, I exist

Hakawati (حكواتي): The traditional Middle Eastern professional storyteller who preserves history, myth, and cultural wisdom through oral performance.

Al-Masudi (d. 956 CE) wrote about Cleopatra in his famous history Muruj al-Dhahab (Meadows of Gold). In sharp contrast to the Roman propaganda that painted her as a seductress, Al-Masudi described her as a respected philosopher and sage who elevated and surrounded herself with scholars.

Generosity is a way of life built on the communal value of equality, in cultures built on colonialism equality not a value instead value found in ownership, exploitation of resources for profit and hoarding wealth and leveraging power over others.
…in many parts of the world generosity not seen as …. sacrifice. In a colonial mindset when we are generous the gift is losing something or exchange.
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Our childhood books always ended in children & marriage. Women are taught to not envision life beyond those bounds. & men R taught to enforce those bounds. We grow up in a cultivated darkness & don’t realize we’re blind.

We lack imagination. we struggle to innovate we barely able to adapt we get stuck in our traditions, eating the same books generation after generation thinking along the same rigid lines. creativity is our world. we are not creative. Our childhood books always ended in children & marriage. Women are taught to not envision life beyond those bounds. & men R taught to enforce those bounds. We grow up in ….. next
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Why do you think so few women run away? Why do you think nothing really changes for book eaters century after century?

Act 4 chapter 26
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In order for interstellar, travel to be possible the civilization must consider zero population growth.

Unchecked exponential expansion Inevitably exhaust planets resources, meaning any advanced, spacefaring civilization must achieve zero population growth(ZPG) to survive its technological adolescence.

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"an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource"

Sun warms us and feeds us and permits us to see, it is powerful beyond human experience. Birds greet the sunrise with an audible Ecstasy. Even some one celled organisms know to swim towards the light. Our ancestors worshiped the sun, and they were far from foolish, yet, the sun is an ordinary, even mediocre star. If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the sun and stars?

I have a terrible need, shall I say the word, a religion, then I go out at night and paint the stars!

Vincent van Gogh

Chap. 9

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be”

Chapter 1

“Politics is for a moment, but an equation is for an eternity.”

Einstein

They will not respect you unless you make them!

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Your voice and your truth will never hold weight unless you learn to hold power. says Uriale.
Medi: But I don’t know how to be powerful I say in a small voice.
Speno juts her chin, looking down her nose at me and in that moment, she looks down like a queen. I’ll tell you this, Power is not given it is taken!

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You are the mortal daughter of two lowly and now disgraced Sea Gods. I’m sure I don’t have to explain to you where you stand in the hierarchy of things.
The words don’t hurt the way might have coming from someone else. I know my sister well enough to know that behind my sister’s words there is love.
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I’m afraid the truth doesn’t matter, Medi, Says Theno.
I warned you that men with power are always first to be believed. you should have listened. In the situation, it isn’t the truth that holds weight. What matters is power and those that yield it. Because they are the ones that get to decide what is true and what is the lie?

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They turned towards him, like sunflowers, turning to the sun.

The impotent humiliation of a beating

Chapter 2

You are the dream my life made…

Wolves teach humility they teach that we are all in this together that we are all a part of the same whole. If something happens to one of them, they all feel it.

“Time to drum,” Rita says, to a place far away. You’re supposed to celebrate a moon, they are powerful. all right then, Let’s get this party started. Cheryl jokes and tosses her smoke out the window. They both laugh, probably too hard. And get their coats to walk off to the bar Arms, interlinked They slip in the snow And laugh with mouths open And too loud because no one cares what old ladies do.