The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

We broke the world to make it whole.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.