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.

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

The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

“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.”

“People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.”

Maybe some instinct told them it was time to swap evolution for devolution, reach back to who they were to reclaim what was theirs.

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