society

How come it is easier for us to imagine the end of all life on earth than to imagine a modest change in our economic order?

There is a difference between a consumer—who passively receives the information that they are spoon fed—and a citizen—who engages with society, asks questions, does research, and works towards making a difference in their neighborhood, city, and country.

The most common beginning of disaster was a sense of security.

Zombie apocalypses became trendy when my generation realized it was our best-case scenario for retirement.

When I realized that people believe what the Internet says more than reality, I discovered that I had the power to make people believe almost anything.

Be the sand you wish to see in the gears.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

Nobody wants to pay taxes, but everyone is happy to invest.

Our children's books, our iconography and our TV screens are still full of giraffes, wolves and chimpanzees, but the real world has very few of them left.

As far as David remembers, by the way, 4 percent of Americans answered that they had been decapitated.