Tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Every generation is its own secret society.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial … Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

Well, societies without a plan, that was history so far; but history so far had been a nightmare, a huge compendium of examples to be avoided.