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“The laws, Raines. Everyone will follow the law. Everyone will have to.” Except for the people programming them.
The United States finally felt the impact of all the money that had been funneled from its public infrastructure, the privatization of its roads, its hospitals, its disaster relief. Neglected roads couldn’t handle the strain of emergency vehicles evacuating people. Fires burned unchecked over cities because too few people had been trained to respond, and those unmanned drones used for surveillance and breaking up raucous crowds weren’t designed for humanitarian efforts. Local water utilities were in disrepair, and pipes burst under the strain. Companies that owned roads tried to enforce their
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There was a whole group of Wyndham Harks executives there, and one of them had this quote he liked: ‘We’re an empire now and when we act, we create our own reality.’ But he didn’t mean I got to act and create my own reality, no, no. He meant they—people like him, people who mattered—were the ones whose actions mattered, the ones who’d create reality for the rest of us, and the rest of us had to obey and fall into line with their vision of the world.
“That’s why I fought back against them. I realized that they don’t get to create my reality if I reject them. They can’t dictate the terms of my existence to me.”
Blackburn had one single weapon in his arsenal: his ship.
JUST LIKE THE megalomaniacs who savaged the world before him, Vengerov proved a coward in the end.
He’d sacrificed something far greater: the vendetta that had given his existence meaning.
They were exiles amid the society they’d tried to subjugate.
People who belong to me. People I belong
