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“Gordon made an effort to look confident for the women’s sake.”

🤦🏼‍♀️

‘Blond concubine’ to Gordon after the boat breaks up: “Wha... what do we do now?”

Reese, you were right. That line IS everywhere!

https://variety.com/2015/scene/vpage/...

“It was called the big lie technique... just sound like you know what you’re talking about, as if you’re citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory and repeat your assertions over and over again. Those who want an excuse to hate or blame... will leap at a simple neat explanation for the way the world is. Those types will never call you on the facts.”

“I know why it all fell apart... women simply didn’t pay close enough attention. Feminism got sidetracked onto issues that were... peripheral to the real problem... males can be brilliant... but... maybe a quarter of you are also lunatics ... potential rapists and murderers. It was our job to... cultivate the best and cull the bastards. We women are the ones who failed, who let it happen.” 🙄🤨

This book is quite cynical... and yet also hopeful.

The argument goes that the only way to overcome humanity’s general diffidence is by using their gullibility to inspire belief in ideas and leaders. But ironically that’s the key to ‘saving humanity’... belief and hope — aka faith.

It occurs to me that our protagonist is best described as ‘chaotic good’ 😂