Post date: May 02, 2020 9:26:10 PM
quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson, re-posted from pluralistic:
"To my mind, this new sense of solidarity is one of the few reassuring things to have happened in this century. If we can find it in this crisis, to save ourselves, then maybe we can find it in the big crisis, to save our children and theirs."
"This knowledge that, although we are practicing social distancing as we need to, we want to be social—we not only want to be social, we've got to be social, if we are to survive. It's a new feeling, this alienation and solidarity at once."
also quotes from Cory Doctorow, same post:
The crisis feels like, as a civilization, we were that asshole who refused to wear a seatbelt, but then had a car-wreck that put him in a coma — from which he miraculously recovered, and now he wears his seatbelt every time.
And like that asshole, we (unforgivably) had to kill a bunch of innocent bystanders to learn a lesson we should have taken to heart a long time ago.
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.. well, that's it. i don't have any interesting quotes of my own to share.
stay safe, everyone.