God appears, and God is light,
to those poor souls who well in night,
but does a human form display,
to those who dwell in realms of day.

The honest philosopher is rewarded with poison; the hypocrite is rewarded with power.

There's no human building that can survive without maintenance. Roots are stronger than concrete.

If humankind had no more cause for war, if would make war for sport instead.

We live in a decaying system, which in turn produces ideologies of decay to justify its existence.

No matter what cultural signifiers they get packaged with, these ideologies come down to the same material result: a future in which for the average person there is less of everything. To paraphrase Mark Fisher, we find it easier to imagine the decline of civilization than to imagine a civilization worth living in.