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Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2) QUOTES

Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2) QUOTES

1 " Have we not already seen the cultural malaise of the past fifty years, as people living within this worldwide cargo cult have been divorced from the need to produce anything, as well as from the consequences of their own actions? They have incrementally been separated from the land, from their factories, from creating art, and now they even abandon marriage and reproduction. "

― Philip Wyeth , Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2)

2 " It's as if every classroom has its own pied piper luring children away from their parents, from their own desires—from whatever they'd known to be true before entering that school building. Who gave them the right to access our minds? Why did they think they had that authority? We were innocent children! "

― Philip Wyeth , Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2)

3 " He began to understand how this idealistic accounting project would inevitably become a monolithic tool of vengeance, which lashed out blindly without context or other sympathetic considerations. Even as restitution milestones were reached over time, the system itself would never feel the human satisfaction that justice had been served. The insatiable bots would crawl on and on... "

― Philip Wyeth , Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2)

4 " Modestianity exists today because there was a pressing need for a philosophy that looked at the present in order to face the future, rather than looking backward for guidance today. "

― Philip Wyeth , Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2)

5 " I always stated it explicitly: All politics is war. All art is political. Therefore all art is a weapon of war. Don't wilt now at the first sight of your own blood. … You want a Purple Heart for your trouble? Fine! But really, you should be thankful to end up stacked in an unmarked mass grave, if in your dying moment you know that your life was given to win the sacred War for Equity. "

― Philip Wyeth , Reparations Mind (Reparations, #2)