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Special Agent Boerner,
Oberstleutnant Heinrich Boerner
She had cashed in her morals at a vending machine.
He almost screamed in terror.
Talavera plates and wooden carvings of Dia de los Muertos figurines.
Faction Multi-phasic Assessment Battery.
An illegal trade developed.”
lately America appears to have strayed from the path set forth by its founders.”
you were found to be above average in most ways. You are highly intelligent, and your personality profile shows you to be self-reliant and resourceful.
“I don’t care about your level of education—that can be remedied—or your background, which doesn’t matter. Nor do I care about the things you’ve done. I only care about the things you’re going to do.
darknet. An encrypted virtual network.
Humanity had always trafficked in oppression. Before the corporate marketing department got ahold of it, it was called conquest. Now it was regional development. Vikings and Mongols were big on revenue targets, too—but Leland had dispensed with all the tedious invading, and had taken a page out of the Roman playbook by hiring the locals to enslave each other as franchisees.
Nearly half the human genome is just the ghostly remnant of parasites.”
blamestorming
the Great Diffusion has begun—an era when the nation state dissolves. Technology will cause this. As countries compete for markets in the global economy, diffusion of high technology will accelerate. It will result in a diffusion of power. And diffusion of power will make countries an ineffective organizing principle. At first, marginal governments will fail. Larger states will not be equipped to intercede effectively. These lawless regions will become breeding grounds for international crime and terrorism. Threats to centralized authority will multiply. Centralized power will be defenseless
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“The modern world is a highly efficient, precision machine. But that’s its flaw—one wrench in the works and it all grinds to a halt. So what does our generation get? A culture of lies to hide weakness. Decreasing freedom. All to conceal one simple fact: the assumptions upon which our civilization is based are no longer valid.
the Daemon is a remorseless system for building a distributed civilization. A civilization that perpetually regenerates. One with no central authority. Your only option is what form that civilization takes. And that depends on the actions of people
