christopher brown

May 14, 2021 by achrilock

“It’s not about oil, Donny. It’s not about high finance. It’s about grain. That’s where it starts, at least. Bending nature to serve man. Building permanent settlements devoted to it. Forcing people to work on it. All to accumulate surplus. Cities, money, all the foundations of civilization and culture—all that is rooted in our dominion, and comes with inequality and injustice preprogrammed. You just can’t fix it. And the other thing it’s preprogrammed for is collapse. Because people can never get enough.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/14/9578/

April 14, 2021 by achrilock

“We are all waiting for the big wave to wash it all away.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/14/8859/

March 22, 2021 by achrilock

“People are too chickenshit. They’re afraid of real justice. Because they know if we get it, it might come for them next.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/22/8350/

February 17, 2021 by achrilock

“For Donny Kimoe, the hardest thing about adapting was that he had to spend a lot of time in Dallas. That he had grown up there only made it worse. But it was where what passed for justice in those days could be found, far enough from the disappearing coast that they only had to close the courthouses during tornado season.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/02/17/7645/

February 14, 2021 by achrilock

“But it didn’t produce much of a sense of justice, let alone authentic reconciliation.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/02/14/7585/

January 20, 2021 by achrilock

“Behind the myths of discovery were the truths of violent conquest and colonization, justified by force rather than law.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/20/6898/

January 6, 2021 by achrilock

“‘There must be a protest,’ said the cabbie.
‘Or a coup d'état,’ said Donny.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/06/6396/

January 5, 2021 by achrilock

“He’s not the president, Jethro. He lost the election.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/05/6343/

December 23, 2020 by achrilock

“Jesus, you’re so wrapped up in your work you don’t even know what’s going on. You better get one of those new passports while you can.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/23/5919/

December 18, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Yes, well, utopia does not exist,’ said Abboud. ‘Because people are thieves at heart.’”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/18/5786/

December 10, 2020 by achrilock

“‘What is it?’ asked Sig.
‘Snowflakes.’
Sig raised an eyebrow.
‘Because of the white noise.’”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/10/5596/

October 31, 2020 by achrilock

“It was weirdly awesome, Donny thought, even as it was horrifying. Something about the sight of the convoy stimulated his inner eleven-year-old, the sheer wonder of the massive power of the nation-state on display. That shock and awe was how they wanted you to react.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/10/31/4752/

October 28, 2020 by achrilock

“It was a map she had taken from the Library. New Orleans from before the floods, even before the fighting. A motorist’s map to a perfectly normal American city, one of those maps from the era when you could get away with never thinking about geography. When you could think of the city as a static thing, made by people, to their design. Instead of a product of nature, organic, dynamic, entropic.”

— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/10/28/4672/