“Then one day the man who would be president promised the deaths of his own citizens. The terrible became ordinary, to thundering applause.”
― Some People Need Killing
― Some People Need Killing
“Those who most commonly win their knowledge from the Internet reportedly do so very much less thoroughly and deeply than do those who bury themselves in books. They know they can always return to the Web and reload the page to find out anything further they might wish to know. There is no need to learn anything in depth. Bullet points will do just fine. To be able to discuss, argue, discern, think about, and value the importance of the knowledge so gathered represents, or so behavioral specialists tell us, a vanishing set of skills.”
― Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
― Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
“Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan”
― The Passenger: Japan
― The Passenger: Japan
“A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, who deserves our love and who deserves our hatred and who, our sheer indifference. Cartography is another name for stories told by winners. For stories told by those who have lost, there isn’t one.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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