Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. —MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

It’s supposed to be a desert, not a sprawling vanity garden. Maybe that’s why everyone there is so miserable. They know they’re all living in a sham.

No bc a lot of people come to L.A forgetting its literal desert land

What good is all this progress if you can’t eat the food or breathe the air or even live on the land when the ocean rises up over it?

Period.

shows us a scale with gold bars on one side and Mother Earth on the other? What kind of a choice is that?

YES!!!

When you’re here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That’s been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we’ve created so much distance from it.

Six homes, no more, ringing a common house in the top-down shape of a turtle, which, according to some Native American beliefs, is the foundation on which the world is built.

I love the research done here

the “ills of today can all be traced to the corruption of civilization.”

Denial is an irrational dismissal of danger. Phobia is an irrational fear of one.

Like if the vibe of most people in the room was slow, wavy lines, she’d have this hard, sharp bounce. God, I lived in SoCal too long.

BAHAAHAA FACTS BC I GET IT! I freaking get it

instead of re-watching The Princess Bride. I’ve loved that movie my whole life. It’s worth the melatonin-reducing light from the screen. I needed the familiarity, the comfort.

Ughhhh same. My most favorite movie of all time

When was the last time I didn’t open my eyes with a mental checklist ticking in my brain? Stuff to do. Problems to solve.

Relatable

Those big, dark patches between the prairie and the Pacific Coast? A lot of that darkness is hostile, unforgiving ground.

It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.

“Agree, contribute, laugh with them, even at my expense. Be diplomatic.”

Uhghhh I love Mostar

And yes, I admit, I feel kind of adrift, vulnerable now that he’s gone.

Oh my god why does she worshipp this guy

That’s why I didn’t bring up the drone crash. That’s why I stayed silent while Yvette nudged

Fmc is sooooooo insufferable

I enjoy all the benefits of killing without ever having to do it myself.

if aliens ever do come calling, they may very well be hostile, because the same brains that mastered spaceflight learned to think by hunting.

And another hard slap, this one up to Dan’s chin.

The only sensable character