The Folded Sky Quotes

“Imagine a world that values profit over well-being and ‘winning’ over the common good.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“We evolved to reproduce”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“Of course”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“The worst thing about rightminding is having to admit to yourself when you’re being an asshole. Denial is so much more comforting.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“Humans make a lot of terrible mistakes because we rely so heavily on narrative to understand the world. It allows our brains to be hacked by convincing fairy tales”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“But the truth is”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“Sometimes your body just needs to do what your body needs to do, and the best way to help it is to get out of its way.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“History isn’t a narrative. There’s nothing tidy about it. There’s nothing clear about its margins. It’s an infiltrated, interlocking mess, and there are other systers whose brains are much more adapted to dealing with the fact that reality is not a story than humans are. Humans make a lot of terrible mistakes because we rely so heavily on narrative to understand the world. It allows our brains to be hacked by convincing fairy tales, to be hijacked by memes whether they have any objective reality or not. We probably needed rightminding more than most species just to remind us that stories are not the truth, even when they feel like the truth. Even when they suit all our biases and reinforce all our prejudices.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky

“Eventually we realized we could dispense with scarcity, that there was no moral benefit to suffering, and that individual people accomplish more good for the community when they are supported rather than exploited by it”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky