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Honestly, this is a game-changer. You, dear Goodreadser, should read this.

Klosterman is the quintessential Gen Xer. He is mean, sarcastic, cynical, he constantly insists how indifferent he is to things that obviously mean a lot to him, he is ironically detached, atheistic, and obsessed with pop culture. And his books remain always fascinating.

“The man who, determined to be free, casts off every rule, ends up being ruled by his worst impulses” (50)

“Will men never be free?…They will be free no longer than while they remain virtuous.” (Samuel Adams qtd. p.82)

“[we resist] being manipulated by our parents, pastors, and spouses [yet] we are more than willing to let ourselves be manipulated by targeted advertisers and feed aggregators.” (96)

“[God] is utterly independent. He does not *receive* life, love, light, or being. He *is* life, love, light, and being.”

“humanity, nevertheless, is not the culmination of creation, but rather humanity in Sabbath day communion with God. This engagement with the divine is what - and what alone - can fulfill the purpose and potential for the image of God, not merely as the keeper of the lower creation, but as the lover of the fathomless Uncreated… in short, humanity was created for the heavenward gaze”

“what’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”