Advent Quotes

“We had access to too much information and too little wisdom.”
― Michael Kamakana, Advent

“We were truly only part of the world but thought ourselves the entire world. We would claim to be the voices of all humans, the voices incorporating all sense, speaking for all our many humans, though there were many humans who would dispute our primacy. We who lost the right to claim such, as became clearer after the aliens came, maintained that we were humans, all too human, but this did not excuse our inhumane history. We were accused by some as the people who had drained resources of the world, who had ruled by market and austerity, who had ruled by sanction and war, who had lived beyond our own means and so had used the means of all other humans.”
― Michael Kamakana, Advent

“We are not judged by the aliens. We are now equally the primitives. We discovered this when our conferences and communications were cast open deliberately, despite rigid security, to anyone who chose to follow our now default, open Internet. We saw our governments fall, we saw stock markets evaporate, we saw money dissolve into numbers, we saw loss of control over flows of information reveal our futility and deceptions and too many secrets previously hidden for the good of our peoples. We saw exponential growth of all those activists who claimed information wanted to be free.”
― Michael Kamakana, Advent

“our illuminating candle in the dark of ignorance was flickering and overwhelmed by arc lamps of brilliance from the aliens”
― Michael Kamakana, Advent