Day Zero Quotes

“You should always be scared of something that thinks it doesn’t have a choice.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“Peace was the standard. It was the inert state of all things. You didn’t need to expend energy for peace. Only war.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“There are few things more dangerous in the world than unemployed young men. There’s a reason that un- and underemployed young men have long been the primary source of manpower for every extremist and terrorist group in modern history. A young man without a job doesn’t have prospects. He doesn’t have luxuries. Odds are that means he doesn’t have a significant other. This leaves him frustrated, horny, and, most of all, angry. And that anger can be focused as a laser-sharp tool.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“Normal is just the idea that whatever messed-up or otherwise insane things going on around you are acceptable to maintain whatever comforts you’ve cobbled together for yourself.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“They were pining for an era that had died several generations before, both dependent on the social safety net and angry at it for not allowing them to be dirt poor on their own terms. With the advent of automation and AI, the Western world found itself transformed from a disparate sea of the working poor to a flood of the unremarkable, staring at video screens filled with shows telling them that they weren’t responsible for their lot in life—that it was the robots who robbed them of their opportunity, not their own lack of motivation or ability.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“Things had gotten strange lately. Not that they were ever normal. Normal is just the idea that whatever messed-up or otherwise insane things are going on around you are acceptable to maintain whatever comforts you've cobbled together for yourself.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“but it was the end of the world and sometimes monumentally stupid is how you survive.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“You can’t swear to not do something on accident.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“If there was any comfort to find at the end of the world, it was knowing you were right all along and that was about it.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“They were pining for an era that had died several generations before, both dependent on the social safety net and angry at it for not allowing them to be dirt poor on their own terms.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero

“anyone spoke of peace, be it man or machine, they meant war. Peace through war. Peace was the standard. It was the inert state of all things. You didn’t need to expend energy for peace. Only war.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Day Zero