We are human We are at war To them to us to the "others" But still we want peace

Only expectation has value as currency,

Today day everyone is in a simulation,staying in their own lane never getting out of formation.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.

The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.