Kindle Notes & Highlights
One of the hallmarks of a good devil speech is the focus on short-term gains over long-term well being.
But even when it fails to win elections, culture war rhetoric serves the purpose of shoring up the hardcore supporters – the base. In that case, failure is almost preferable to success. It keeps the base unified and, above all, angry. Resentment is the cheap fuel that keeps the culture wars running, and like most cheap fuels it generates an appalling amount of pollutants.
The artist seeks to evoke it; the scientist seeks to describe it. But each is looking for something outside himself, something true and recognizable, something that can be communicated to others.
“Energy is Eternal Delight.”
With Julian, the light went, and now nothing remains but to let the darkness come, and hope for a new sun and another day, born of time’s mystery and man’s love of light.
nice quote lolz
In the United States of Amnesia (another of his pet phrases) memory is a solace, a goad, and a weapon.
