Some quotes
Some quotes from Waylee Freid:
"Why play a fixed game when I can kick the table over?"
“There’s plenty of money and resources to solve the world’s problems. But the handful of people who control most of the world’s wealth and power live in their own stratosphere and want to keep it that way. And [the media] is their biggest mouthpiece, manufacturing fake realities and keeping people distracted and divided.”
"Aliens could bombard the city with carnivorous Pikachu and even that wouldn’t tear people away from their sports fixations."
"Fingers twine
For the first time.
Past we pass,
Our skin aligns.
It’s not fate,
We self-activate.
Awake our dreams,
The world can’t wait."
Even though it barraged her with propaganda, Waylee always kept a national news portal open in the lower right corner. ‘Know thy enemy,’ Sun Tzu advised across three millennia of dog-eat-dog history.
“Get ready, you bastards! I am gonna stick the biggest firecracker on Earth up your ass and light it with a flamethrower!”
Too bad she wasn’t really Storm from the X-Men. Or anyone with superpowers, able to right the wrongs of the world merely by existing outside the confines of science.
Every nerve in Waylee’s body tingled when they entered the data center. Murky blue-lit walls of processors stretched into the distance, alive behind millions of green and red eyes. Her lyrics homunculus stirred:
Do not go quiet into Luxmore’s night.
Rage, rage against the machines’ false light.
"Do you feel like plankton in the sea,
Tossed helplessly or devoured
By a voracious Leviathan?"
"The few cannot constrain the many.
Especially when we transform
Self-mutating
Into legions of heroes."
“As jury members, the Constitution gives you the right to vote your conscience. If a law isn’t just, or is being used unjustly, you can reject it. Juries rejected the return of slaves in the 1800’s and acquitted peace activists in the 1900’s. You have the right to acquit [the defendant], to make a statement."
“The thing about power is, even dictators can only rule with the cooperation of the people. Stop cooperating, and the power transfers to the people.”
“With [just] 3.5% of the population actively involved, change is inevitable.”
"You may feel like a dust mote, completely inconsequential. But that’s not true. It’s just what they want you to think. They give you two options—to support the team in power, or to withdraw and mind your own business."
"One thing they forget is, there’s only a handful of them and billions of us. All we have to do is stop being passive. Stop listening to MediaCorp’s lies and dig for the truth, think critically, ask tough questions. Hell, don’t take me for granted either."
"Power, both political and economic, can’t be allowed to accumulate in the hands of a few. We need to replace top-down control with collaborative democracy in government and the workplace. A utopia is unrealistic—humans have too many bad tendencies. But we need the ability to correct course whenever things go bad."
"We’re ninety nine percent the same,
Our basic needs a common frame.
They’re not gods or beings enlightened,
They’re just people with thoughts misguided..."
"Without solid proof—often, even with it—believing lies that affirm one’s ingrained beliefs feels better than believing truth that contradicts them."
"Why play a fixed game when I can kick the table over?"
“There’s plenty of money and resources to solve the world’s problems. But the handful of people who control most of the world’s wealth and power live in their own stratosphere and want to keep it that way. And [the media] is their biggest mouthpiece, manufacturing fake realities and keeping people distracted and divided.”
"Aliens could bombard the city with carnivorous Pikachu and even that wouldn’t tear people away from their sports fixations."
"Fingers twine
For the first time.
Past we pass,
Our skin aligns.
It’s not fate,
We self-activate.
Awake our dreams,
The world can’t wait."
Even though it barraged her with propaganda, Waylee always kept a national news portal open in the lower right corner. ‘Know thy enemy,’ Sun Tzu advised across three millennia of dog-eat-dog history.
“Get ready, you bastards! I am gonna stick the biggest firecracker on Earth up your ass and light it with a flamethrower!”
Too bad she wasn’t really Storm from the X-Men. Or anyone with superpowers, able to right the wrongs of the world merely by existing outside the confines of science.
Every nerve in Waylee’s body tingled when they entered the data center. Murky blue-lit walls of processors stretched into the distance, alive behind millions of green and red eyes. Her lyrics homunculus stirred:
Do not go quiet into Luxmore’s night.
Rage, rage against the machines’ false light.
"Do you feel like plankton in the sea,
Tossed helplessly or devoured
By a voracious Leviathan?"
"The few cannot constrain the many.
Especially when we transform
Self-mutating
Into legions of heroes."
“As jury members, the Constitution gives you the right to vote your conscience. If a law isn’t just, or is being used unjustly, you can reject it. Juries rejected the return of slaves in the 1800’s and acquitted peace activists in the 1900’s. You have the right to acquit [the defendant], to make a statement."
“The thing about power is, even dictators can only rule with the cooperation of the people. Stop cooperating, and the power transfers to the people.”
“With [just] 3.5% of the population actively involved, change is inevitable.”
"You may feel like a dust mote, completely inconsequential. But that’s not true. It’s just what they want you to think. They give you two options—to support the team in power, or to withdraw and mind your own business."
"One thing they forget is, there’s only a handful of them and billions of us. All we have to do is stop being passive. Stop listening to MediaCorp’s lies and dig for the truth, think critically, ask tough questions. Hell, don’t take me for granted either."
"Power, both political and economic, can’t be allowed to accumulate in the hands of a few. We need to replace top-down control with collaborative democracy in government and the workplace. A utopia is unrealistic—humans have too many bad tendencies. But we need the ability to correct course whenever things go bad."
"We’re ninety nine percent the same,
Our basic needs a common frame.
They’re not gods or beings enlightened,
They’re just people with thoughts misguided..."
"Without solid proof—often, even with it—believing lies that affirm one’s ingrained beliefs feels better than believing truth that contradicts them."
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