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“You don’t talk like them, you don’t look like them, and your research doesn’t fit what they’re looking for. You will always have to perform twice as well for half the acclaim. You have no room for mistakes.” Pg 184

One’s sins took on meaning in the context of their moral universe, comprised of their loved ones, their idols, their rivals, their victims.

“You could do anything if you were delusional.” P50

The whole Abrahamic world invests itself in this promise: Dont lie, dont cheat, dont fuck or steal or kill, and you’ll be a good person. Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing.