“There is no equivalence between grief and retribution. They do not cancel each other out. They create a deepening asymmetry of grief and terror. And that is Nature's true revenge.” GriefRetribution Book:A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues Source: A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
“As the gulf between the educated elite and the mass of ordinary Americans widens, the hope for civility declines. The top 1 per cent send more of their children to elite American universities than the bottom 60 per cent. They emerge from these universities with contempt for the social conservatism of large swathes of working-class America whose fury found a voice in a president who told them, 'I love the poorly educated!' This dynamic of love and hate, fueled by identity groups that no longer understand each other, creates digital echo chambers where we speak only to those who speak like us. The first casualty of these chambers is any possibility of shared truth, and without this truth the centre cannot hold.” Echo Chamber Book:A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues Source: A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
“Our projections make angels and demons out of people, who stand as proxies for the emotions we might otherwise be incapable or expressing. And when an angel dies, we are overwhelmed with grief, not just, or even primarily, for the one who has dies, but for ourselves.” Hate Book:A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues Source: A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues