I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair.
Every previous revolutionary movement in human history has made the same basic mistake. They’ve all seen power as a static apparatus, as a structure. And it’s not. It’s a dynamic, a flow system with t...
And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
Simulacrum
It’s amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.
But fuck it, you’ve got to make a stand somewhere. And a man can stave off his own death wish for only so long.
You’ll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don’t have to think for themselves.
Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels.
This enemy you cannot kill, I murmured. He nodded and finished the quote for me. You can only drive it back damaged into the depths and teach your children to watch the waves for its return.
The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?
That’s right. People. It’s all people. People and their stupid fucking groups. Show me an individual decision maker whose decisions have harmed me, and I’ll melt his stack to slag. Show me a group wit...
Tell me something, Gradual—back in Hellas, do they categorize the triads as organized crime? I paused to let the insult sink in. Because over here in the Gash, if someone inside the familias andinas w...
Something was pushing me, something that had very little to do with the look the Mongol had given me. Something dark that had spread its wings on the low-key misery of the cabin, something uncontrolle...
Part of running a successful tyranny is knowing when and how to let your subjects off the leash
Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant.
No hagas juicios en tres dimensiones de lo que sólo puedes ver en la pantalla de un televisor.
Like so much of what goes on in the Gash, the overall aim is consumer tranquillity, not truth.
It’s not an easy thing to put a gun to your own head, even if you do want to die. To do it when you want to live must take the will of a demon.
If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other f...