Inside Man

by K.J. Parker

Ours, needless to say, is not to reason why, but inquiring minds want to know about things, and I have an inquiring mind.

While there’s life, at the very least there’s being here, even if here is a shitheap. Not being here, even in a shitheap, is nothing at all.

‘That which is done out of love is beyond good and evil’?”

I’ve always thought it was one of those sayings that sound really good till you stop and try and figure out what it means.”

we’re passionately committed to freedom of speech. We don’t burn books. Only the people who write them.)

There are no gods, and religion is simply an artifact of human morality, which in turn is a blend of mental expediency and fashion,

Mental expediency and fashion😂😂

“After all, we deal with mass effects, most of the time. We have to. We haven’t got the staff for a truly tailored service.”

What’s the common experience of ninety-nine percent of human mortals throughout the full extent of sequential linear time? Answer: doing the best they can to survive in a hostile, unforgiving world; continually threatened and brutalized by forces they can neither control nor resist; born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards; inured to defeat, loss, and humiliation; dragging through their nasty, short, brutish lives with KICK ME painted indelibly on their backs.