The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
The National Guard has been activated to restore order, and I suppose it might. But I suspect that in the short term, it will only add to the chaos. What else could another group of well-armed people do in such an insane situation.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
‘The Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars,’ or among the ashes.”
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of super-person. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of. Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you’ll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
there’s nothing more replaceable than unskilled labor.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
A first wife who was a drug addict and a daughter who is drug damaged is not something he wants to boast about.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
Is it a sin against God to be poor?
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
“The police,” my father told them, “may be able to avenge you, but they can’t protect you.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But there’s hope in understanding the nature of God—not punishing or jealous, but infinitely malleable. There’s comfort in realizing that everyone and everything yields to God. There’s power in knowing that God can be focused, diverted, shaped by anyone at all. But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you. You know that.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
“I mean to survive,” I said.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
In spite of your loss and pain, you aren’t alone. You still have people who care about you and want you to be all right. You still have family.
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves …
The reports say that it makes watching a fire better than sex. I don’t know whether the reporters are condemning it or advertising it.”
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers …
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, written by Jordan Ellenberg, is …
And I tend to side with Seife, who argues that elections this close should be decided by coin flip.* Some will balk at the idea of choosing our leaders by chance. But that’s actually the coin flip’s most important benefit! Close elections are already determined by chance.
— How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking by Jordan Ellenberg