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September 17, 2021 by achrilock

“The world isn’t friends and enemies. It’s people who might help you, and people who’ll get in your way.”
— N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Stone Sky’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/17/12436/

September 16, 2021 by achrilock

“Yet we would do well to remember that this priceless pool of talent consists of people who have collectively hastened the end of the species and done nothing to slow down ecocide. This is a pool of talent we would probably be much better off doing without. We now need a different type of structure to replace the existing model of the corporation. And within this structure we will need a different form of management with a different skill set, driven by an entirely different set of motivations and norms.”
— David Whyte, ‘Ecocide: Kill the corporation before it kills us’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/16/12419/

September 16, 2021 by achrilock

“But no, regardless of what power humankind has access to, I suppose I never see it as having a good outcome. We are animals, after all. And don’t let your housecat fool you into thinking that animals are nothing more than fuzzy, whiskered creatures who wish us no ill. Nature is bloody, and as a whole, it favors strength over compassion.”
— Veronica Roth, ‘Chosen Ones’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/16/12412/

September 15, 2021 by achrilock

“When Bobbie tried to imagine being so wealthy you could own a spaceship just to compete in races, she failed.”
— James S.A. Corey, ‘Caliban’s War’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/15/12395/

September 14, 2021 by achrilock

“The program found in the head of an average poet, after all, was written by the poet’s civilization, and that civilization was in turn programmed by the civilization that preceded it, and so on to the very Dawn of Time, when those bits of information that concerned the poet-to-be were still swirling about in the primordial chaos of the cosmic deep.”
— Stanislaw Lem, ‘The Cyberiad’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/14/12382/

September 13, 2021 by achrilock

“Somehow it all comes back to coal at school. Besides basic reading and math most of our instruction is coal-related. Except for the weekly lecture on the history of Panem. It’s mostly a lot of blather about what we owe the Capitol. I know there must be more than they’re telling us, an actual account of what happened during the rebellion. But I don’t spend much time thinking about it. Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.”
— Suzanne Collins, ‘The Hunger Games’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/13/12373/

September 13, 2021 by achrilock

“This is the paradox that lies at the heart of the regulatory process. Corporations are licensed to kill, albeit within government defined limits. And those limits are not determined from a standpoint of public safety, or indeed of protecting the planet; they are determined by an economic standard. This is another principle that is increasingly being codified in regulatory systems.”
— David Whyte, ‘Ecocide: Kill the corporation before it kills us’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/13/12357/

September 11, 2021 by achrilock

“The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. But gaining access to all that information turned out to be something of a mixed blessing. Because that was when I found out the truth.”
— Ernest Cline, ‘Ready Player One’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/11/12337/

September 10, 2021 by achrilock

“The Shattering was a hundred different Seasons, Nassun, all over the world, all striking at once. It is a marvel that anything of humanity survived.”
— N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Stone Sky’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/10/12321/

September 10, 2021 by achrilock

“Democracy versus capitalism? Could get very ugly.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/10/12309/

September 9, 2021 by achrilock

“I travel, I test, and (with any luck) I’m able to raise some species a bit higher than they were before making my acquaintance.”
— Peter David, John de Lancie, ‘I, Q’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/09/12295/

September 8, 2021 by achrilock

“Many of them were now arguing that all the young people on Earth, and all the generations of humans in the centuries to come, and all their cousin creatures on the planet who could never speak for themselves, especially in court—all these living beings added up to something like a poor and vulnerable developing nation, a huge one, appearing inexorably over the horizon of time.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Ministry for the Future’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/08/12276/

September 8, 2021 by achrilock

“The neo-colonial model has characteristics that are common across industries and across geographical contexts.”
— David Whyte, ‘Ecocide: Kill the corporation before it kills us’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/08/12268/