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That’s humanity. That’s people. I got mine, you can’t have any of it, and if you even look at me sideways I’ll put a bullet in you.”
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. —Robert Green Ingersoll
Together, they placed Trigger in a case all its own, clearing out the gold records that hung there. (“Gold records are bullshit,” Pete said, throwing them behind them in a pile. They clattered as they fell—not the sound of metal against metal, but the sound of garbage against garbage. “Disposable. Not even real gold. Just some cheap shit vinyl they spray-paint.”)
“Not too far out of line with what modern evangelical thought had become, sadly. Selfish people in awe of a selfish deity.”
You want to know the truth of the thing? It’s that there’s always a segment of people who want to be controlled. They like it. It’s easy, for starters. And it makes them feel special—which, I know, runs counter to how the rest of us think, but we foolishly like to imagine everyone wants free will, that they cherish their autonomy. But that’s wrong. They don’t. Some feel like they’ve been chosen to serve at the feet of dictators and autocrats. As if it’s a place of privilege. Some people really, really want to be told what to do, even as they think themselves mavericks, patriots, free-thinkers.
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“Spent the years wandering, mostly. Faffing off. Getting high. Sucking dick. Seeing the country. As one does.
Capitalism is the act of flirting with disaster. It’s the mode of economics that sends us over the cliff and charges us for the privilege of getting saved just before we crater. Capitalism manufactures chaos and catastrophe and then manufactures the solution to chaos and catastrophe.
