It's the reward of old age," Avasarala said. "You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant. You're not selling… - James S. A. Corey

Something in the back of her head shifted. The serpent of learned helplessness long asleep starting to wake. She pretended it wasn’t there, in hopes that if she denied it enough, it wouldn’t exist.

Sometimes when we make these distinctions, we’re really creating them more than describing anything that’s already there.

Drummer had read somewhere that newsfeeds were where secular societies went to find out what cultural narratives were important and what could be ignored.