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But when you stand there and behold the story of the Klooga concentration camp…you begin to feel hope itself slipping away through your fingers, and not just hope for the Jewish captives in Klooga. In a place like this your mind expands as the dark end of your imagination blooms, and you wonder if human depravity has any bottom at all, and if it does not, what hope is there for any of us?

The human mind can only conceive of so much tragedy at once—and when lost lives spiral into the hundreds, then thousands, and then millions, when murder becomes a wide, seemingly unending mass, we lose our ability to see its victims as anything more than an abstract, almost theoretical, collection of lives. In this way, a second crime is perpetrated: Human beings are reduced to a gruel of misery.

“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast man or the white man, it is like a fisherman casting a net into the water. He keeps only the one or two fish that he needs to feed himself and puts the rest in the water, thinking that their lives will go back to normal. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.”

“The statues and pageantry can fool you. They look like symbols of wars long settled, fought on behalf of men long dead. But their redemption is not about honoring a past. It’s about killing a future.”

“The arts tell us what is possible and what is not, because, among other things, they tell us who is human and who is not. All the Gold Dust Twins and Korn Kinks, all the Sambos and Niggerheads, all the spooks and coons, all the Uncle Bens and Aunt Jemimas, all the Nigger-Dies-First and Black-Bitch-Craves-Dick are, at their core, the founding myths of an empire.”

“You can learn anything when you have to learn it. You could learn to fly if it meant you would live another day.”

Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind’s eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect.

“The studio may be a ruthless capitalist machine,” he opines, “but we’re not *evil*.”

Oh this is gonna be GOOD

Nice

Not to be ADHD on main but a thing I really fucking miss about the Star Wars EU is the character cast list in the front of every book I am begging authors to bring that back

"We could wait for SpaceX to declare Martian freedom, or for President Gingrich to welcome the state of Moonsylvania* into the US fold..."


*"That was the cleverest state name we could come up with. Alternatives included North Dacrater, South Caroluna, and most regrettably, Regolithithippi."

THESE TWO ARE RIDICULOUS

“We’re sorry to have begun with jokes about the snuggle tunnel and ended with eugenics. Babies make things weird, don’t they?”

This book is great honestly

“Open your eyes”
“I can’t, sir. I won’t.”
“I understand. You’re afraid…But choosing to keep your eyes closed because you’re scared? That’s what *they* do. And you don’t have to go through your life blind because you are not *them*.”

"...the world now faces a far more harrowing task - zeroing out emissions within just a few decades, perhaps even sooner...What seemed advisable in 1988 now qualifies almost as climate denial; what counted as ambitious in 2008 is already hopelessly inadequate. Andif curves aren't bent immediately, by 2025 even the dispiriting maths we face today will no longer be workable either."

*laughs nervously*

“So far as I understood the British Empire, other people’s countries were useful or negligible but rarely conceived of as autonomous.”

This book is incredibly hard to read. Not because it’s poorly put together but because it shines a light on just how dramatically we are not addressing climate change in any meaningful way and on a scope even the most informed of us probably don’t understand.

Israel’s sins and crimes against humanity are so much more numerous, and run so much deeper, than I realized

I just really fucking love volcanoes

Dude loves alliteration and there was a sly “one does not simply” reference in here so I love him

As per usual, Israel (and the U.S.) is horrifying

Honestly it’s giving “In this house” liberalism

“There are times when I wish I believed in hell—other than the hells we make for one another, I mean.” -Lauren Oya Olamina

Just wow.