Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.

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

I could tell he was upset. You can always tell by the couch time. If he comes to bed an hour or so after me, he’s miffed. If it’s the middle of the night, something’s really under his skin. If I find him asleep in the morning, iPad on his stomach…

There’s something called a “lahar,” a boiling mudslide.

“Need. That’s what makes a village. That’s what we are now, and what holds us together is need. I won’t help you if you don’t help me. That is the social contract.”

Regardless of how much climate is to blame, there is no denying that human hunting contributed to the greatest mass extinction since the death of the dinosaurs. In North America alone, entire species vanished within a thousand years of humanity’s arrival.

Intelligence surrendering to self-preservation.

Adversity introduces us to ourselves.