Daniel

“No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. [...] When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“They weren't fighting for the right to look at boobs in video games anymore, but fighting against "white genocide". [...] It wasn't just gaming that needed saving, but Western civilization itself.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

“[...]heaven is such that all people of every religion whatever who live rightly have a place there.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine providence (1972) ISBN: 4880890065 [Japanese Import]

“Recruits were drawn together by some ostensibly life-or-death threat: the terrible truth of vaccines, the Illuminati agents who spread Zika, the feminists seeking to overturn men’s rightful place atop the gender hierarchy, starting with gaming. “Ordinary people began to feel like they were like soldiers in an online army fighting for their cause,” she said. It was only a matter of time until they willed one another to action.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World