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After high school, he got a job working as a night watchman at a factory. He spent his days posting on various conspiracy theory forums, speculating about the impending fall of the country. I don’t think this was precognitive—he was just one of a large group of eccentrics who were dissatisfied with the way the United States was run. He frequently said he didn’t believe that the common people were capable of voting in their best interests.
“Stand,” Abraham said. “This is the true test of a man. He who will stand when others grow complacent.”
But there’s no harm in relaxing a little, you know?” “There’s all kinds of harm in it. Relaxed people don’t get anything done.”
hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.
The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal…well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me.
about as accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”
We’re all like that. We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.”
If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they’d find a way to ferment anything, given time.
“sometimes you have to help the heroes along.”
My job as leader was to hang back and make judgment calls. It sucked.
You want to fight a god? You’d better have one on your side too.
