“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

We are prisons the future because we are ensnared by our past.

And…purchased! Thanks for letting me know.

And your two books, Sea of Rust and Day Zero are both terrifying and highly recommended.

"The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease."
-Cicero

James Baldwin’s timeless advice:

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

- Martin Luther King Jr. 1963

You cannot reason someone out of a belief that fulfills an emotional need.

"No free man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." - 1215 Magna Carta

Somewhat relevant now.

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

- James Baldwin, No Name in the Street, 1972

​"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -- Founding Father John Adams, in a letter to John Taylor, 1814

“The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”

-Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (10 Jan 1834-1902)

“There is no past and no future; no one has ever entered those two imaginary kingdoms. There is only the present.”

―Leo Tolstoy

"Certainly there is a new age coming, and it will be a planetary age. But the beginnings of ages are usually terrible, with great violence, yang in a most brutal way. New ages don't come softly; they are times of aggression and smashing. I see no sign of anything gentle happening."
-Joseph Campbell

"Anger is the common substitute for logic among those who have no evidence for what they desperately want to believe."
- Isaac Asimov

“If you think in terms of one year, plant rice; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of one hundred years, teach the people.”
— Guan Zhong, Guanzi

“Everyone takes the limits of their own vision to be the limits of the world.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers."

- Seneca, Letters of a Stoic

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."
~ Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist writing from jail in the time of Mussolini.

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
-Ernest Hemingway

“You cannot remove a thorn by shouting at it; the hand must be brave.”
- African Proverb

“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”
- Frank Zappa

“Accept advice from those who have walked the road, not those who point at it.”
- African Proverb

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
- Michael Crichton

“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.” - Anonymous

Posting this for no apparent reason.

“In times of change, LEARNERS inherit the earth, while the LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

- Eric Hoffer

"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand." Xunzi (340 - 245 BC)

"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."-Arthur C Clarke

So tired of all the village idiots who banded together and somehow took over this nation.