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It’s not the thing that breaks you need to watch out for. It’s the cascade.
It’s not healthy having God sleeping right there where we can all watch him dream. It scares the shit out of us.
It was intentional and inhuman. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there.
“For what it’s worth, you’ll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying.
“If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.”
How many illegal captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades.
“Empire. Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp. We started out fighting over who got the best branches in one tree. Then we climb down and fight over a few kilometers’ worth of trees. Then someone starts riding horses, and you get empires of hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Ships open up empire expansion across the oceans. The Epstein drive gave us the outer planets…”
We’re getting ready to trade our solar system away because we thought we could build airports out of bamboo and summon the cargo.”
“It’s weird as tits on a bishop,
She put her head against his shoulder, and she didn’t need Earth so badly any longer. This was home enough.
Because men like him lived for their legacy. They saw themselves as the architects of the future.
All of human civilization had been built out of the ruins of what had come before. Life itself was a grand chemical improvisation that began with the simplest replicators and grew and collapsed and grew again. Catastrophe was just one part of what always happened. It was a prelude to what came next.
