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“Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us
make America great again.”
Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should.
It’s not like anything humanity has ever done before. And if I can’t have it, if I can’t help to make it happen…” To my amazement, I felt myself on the verge of tears. “If I can’t give it the push it needs, if I can’t live to see it succeed…” I paused, swallowed. “If I can’t live to see it succeed, then, maybe Larkin can!”
Earthseed prepares you to live in the world that is and try to shape the world that you want.
But none of it is really easy.
If anyone says otherwise, attack their credibility. Accuse them of being secret cultists, witches, Satanists, thieves.
Whatever you think will endanger your accusers the most, say it! Don’t
just defend yourselves. Attack. And keep attacking until you scare the shit out of your accusers. Watch them. Pay attention to their body language. Their own reactions will tel...
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We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our
world to sustain us. Or we can make something more of ourselves. We can grow up. We can leave the nest. We can fulfill the Destiny, make homes for ourselves among the stars, and become some combination of what we want to become and whatever our new environments challenge us to become. Our new worlds will remake us as we remake
them. And some of the new people who emerge from all this will develop new ways to cope. They’ll have to. That will break the old cycle, even if it’s...
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“Earthseed is about preparing to fulfill the Destiny. It’s about learning to live in partnership with one an...
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at the same time, working out a sustainable partnership with our environment. It’s about treating education and adaptability as the absolute essentials that they are. It’s…” I glanced at Len, caught a little smile on her face, and wound down. “It...
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“Focus on what people want and tell them how your system will help them get it.
But there’s no manual for this kind of thing. I suppose that I’ll be learning what to do and how to do it until the day I die.
To survive, Know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.
