“I am a god and I am not a god. Either way, you are my creatures. I keep you alive. Inside I am hot beyond all telling, and yet my outside is even hotter. At my touch you burn, though I spin outside the sky. As I breathe my big slow breaths, you freeze and burn, freeze and burn. Someday I will eat you. For now, I feed you. Beware my regard. Never look at me.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“it looked like the great heat wave would be like mass shootings in the United States— mourned by all, deplored by all, and then immediately forgotten or superseded by the next one, until they came in a daily drumbeat and became the new normal.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“it’s called socialism. Or, for those who freak out at that word, like Americans or international capitalist success stories reacting allergically to that word, call it public utility districts. They are almost the same thing. Public ownership of the necessities, so that these are provided as human rights and as public goods, in a not-for-profit way. The necessities are food, water, shelter, clothing, electricity, health care, and education. All these are human rights, all are public goods, all are never to be subjected to appropriation, exploitation, and profit. It’s as simple as that.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
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