Michael Carter > Quotes

“Someone once told me his idea for surviving a crash of civilization was to be a lone wolf, heading for the hills, with his rifle and knife, living off the land. "Nowadays, I'm more interested in staying behind and helping others," he said, "like after Hurricane Katrina. Coming together and rebuilding something that can last."

"How about BEFORE a disaster?" I asked.

"Even better.”
― Michael Carter, Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization

“If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we?”
― Michael Carter, Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization

“Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering and death, our culture adheres to its ideas in spite of ample, clear evidence they will lead to suffering and death.”
― Michael Carter, Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization

“The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of presumed supremacy, but at power and its social and physical infrastructure. To find weak points within scriptures and structures of the system, as one might examine an old block wall before demolition, seeking out crumbling mortar lines and cracked blocks. Then, to strike, and recruit more help - more and more - and strike, and strike, and bring it down.”
― Michael Carter, Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization