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Legislators who need civics education passing laws about civics education: it’s the kind of irony that threatens democracy.
“The more of this world I had discovered, the more I rejected the cage my father had built for me. There, in her frayed outline, I saw it, finally: If I were to forge my own path, to be free to make my own version of her, I had to leave this place. If I were to ever break free of this life, I had to run. But how would I ever find my way out? How would I know where to begin? Here, in the same hills that had made my father, now sprung the seed of my own rebellion.”
― How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
― How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
“That’s the revenge of the Tipping Point: The very same tools we use to build a better world can also be used against”
― Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
― Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
“There was more than one way to be lost, more than one way to be saved.”
― How to Say Babylon
― How to Say Babylon
“The best solution to a monoculture epidemic is to break up the monoculture.”
― Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
― Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
“back when humans must have lived in almost continuous humility and awe, transfixed by the inescapable sense of just how small and unimportant they were—little more than Tadpole Shrimp or Spadefoot Toads, creatures unburdened by delusions that the world could be sculpted to suit their ambitions and needs.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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