“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a sublime Africa before the white man's corruption, so did Thomas Jefferson dream of an idyllic Britain before the Normans, so do all of us dream of some other time when things were so simple. I know now that that hunger is a retreat from the knotty present into myth and that what ultimately awaits those who retreat into fairy tales, who seek refuge in the mad pursuit to be made great again, in the image of greatness that never was, is tragedy.” Fairy TalesMythsMagaMake America Great AgainRevisionist HistoryBill CosbyCultural MythsPound Cake Speech Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever. The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.” Contemporary FictionPostmodernFuturistsCultural Myths Book:Zero K Source: Zero K