Cr Dicken

“Over the last century, a new power narrative has emerged that warps archaeological data into a specific shape the way a magnet affects iron filings. It is the unspoken belief that humanity is on a journey from worse to better, from primitive to complex, uncivilised to civilised. Our civilisation of perpetual war, total surveillance, obesity, runaway mental illness, overmedication, environmental degradation, widespread unemployment and scientific materialism has nothing to learn from the past because it is better. Enjoy that smartphone made by suicidal Taiwanese slave labour. Continue shopping.”
― Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits

“Social media is to socializing what masturbating is to sex.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air with chatter just to hear ourselves make noise.”
― Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

“whatever we build in the imagination will accomplish itself in the circumstances of our lives.”
― Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality