The Beginning Comes After the End Quotes

“Monsters—the bad kind—show us the way forwards, as well as pushing us back.” That the old world is dying is widely acknowledged and addressed. The old ways of doing things no longer fit who we have become: the systems fail, break, decay, fall into corruption; anachronistic school curriculums and journalistic and political norms, social roles and customs, rules, laws, and institutions don’t offer us equipment to face the realities of our time, whether they feel like cages or outgrown garments or broken tools. Poverty and displacement, degradation and alienation are byproducts of voracious, ruthless systems committed to inequality and indifferent to human rights and the rights of nature, which is to say that they are violence by other means, and sometimes they are the violence itself.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Ideas have power, and while those who support them often dismiss that power, those who fear them recognize they can change the world.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Silicon Valley’s oligarchs are committed to harnessing their new technologies to that old and dying world of inequality and hierarchy, of extreme wealth and poverty, extreme power and powerlessness, of isolation and alienation,”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Perhaps a worldview in which interconnection is a fundamental principle”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Their denial was a manifestation of the view that truth and fact are themselves commodities you can choose in an open marketplace of realities. Taken to an extreme”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change