The Man Who Saw Seconds Quotes

“What we the people have is a minimal, once-every-four-years type of power, while nearly everything in our lives is controlled by others.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“For decades now, Americans had been subjected to careful social engineering designed to make them fearful. Because without fear a man might stand up, claim his divine spark, steal fire from the gods, and slug it out with the angels. Like Bigman had said, fearlessness made men difficult to govern.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“If you want to break down a body from the outside, you can do it in three ways. One: overwhelm it with something really powerful. Two: weaken its defences by giving it nothing to fight against, like washing all germs away, for a generation. Or three: use a targeted disease that makes the immune system go into overdrive, burn itself into an auto-immune disease and destroy the body itself. The third is sort of what Al-Qaeda tried with 9-11 or what we did with some of the covid lockdowns.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. For a day—go fishing. For a month—get married. For a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“CNN discovered math, and within minutes all the stations except for Fox News were flashing "15x37=555" on background screens while overpaid anchors carried the three as they explained for those who couldn't read, multiply or follow the numbers.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“lupo, robur lupo in grege.” The strength of the wolf is in the pack,”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“The OODA loop—observe, orient, decide, act—that every military and law enforcement agency worldwide was always trying to tighten. As the manual said, “The measure of command and control effectiveness is simple: either our command and control works faster than the enemy’s decision-execution cycle or the enemy will own our command and control.” And as with most systemic”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“But that political hangover from the Flea House was flushed out every Friday morning by the knowledge that his family was safe because of the fences that the police built with their “thin blue line.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds