In a world where black African colonists are annexing the traditional lands of fair-skinned Nemadi hunters, where Celts struggle against English domination while Basques in Spain and Koryaks in Russia fight to retain their ancient lands and languages, where diasporic peoples of various skin tones have been making babies together for generations in

(Hard Core Republican) “The deep state tried to take out our guy because they’re scared of what will happen when he gets elected.”

(Hard Core Democrat) “The assassination attempt was staged for political benefit.”

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Te

It seems that we are most busy when we do not do the one thing we ought to do; most greedy when we cannot have the one thing we really want; most hurried when we can never arrive; most self-righteous when irrevocably in the wrong.

Eric Hoffer

There are no ordinary people.

You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C. S. Lewis