Kim Stanley Robinson Quote
When you have a strong conservative streak in your society, Zeyk would say, which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get the worst kinds of civil wars. As in the conflict in Colombia that they called La Violencia, for instance. A civil war that became a complete breakdown of the state, a chaos that no one could understand, much less control.
Kim Stanley Robinson
When you have a strong conservative streak in your society, Zeyk would say, which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get the worst kinds of civil wars. As in the conflict in Colombia that they called La Violencia, for instance. A civil war that became a complete breakdown of the state, a chaos that no one could understand, much less control.
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