Christopher Hudson Jr. > Recent Status Updates

"War is not neatly contained in the space and time legitimated by the state. It reverberates in other terrains and lasts long past armistice. It comes home in ways bloody and unexpected."

I can’t believe I reading 2 Jason Brennan books in the same year, but here we are.

‪“The misplaced, religious longing for a savior and for salvation is nowhere as clear as in the political realm. The truth is that no one can save you but yourself. Others can help. Others may even be necessary, but they will never be sufficient.”‬

“Belief occurs along a continuum of certainty, and it can never reach absolute certainty.”

“Although neither we nor the feds deliberately set Mount Carmel ablaze, the FBI must have been aware that the toxic brew they injected into our building in such enormous quantities would create a highly flammable condition that windy day.“

“The government’s propaganda that we’d replay Jonestown—the mass suicide of James Jones’s followers in Guyana in 1978—was strongly refuted by people both inside and outside Mount Carmel.”

During the final attack, women and children in the concrete vault huddled under wet blankets and towels in a vain attempt to escape the heat and gas. Mothers wrapped children in sleeping bags for protection, unaware that CS is denser than air and settles near the floor.