We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from
A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.
One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so unlike ours, and in this most zen way!
Quotes from the book
There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.
If you are permanently in a dream world, how do you spend your time? After all, nothing matters.
Civilisation requires compromises. In exchange for comfort, we lost our reason for being here.
The greatest mystery of the universe is how our own ignorance shrouds it.
The dreaming world is full of creatures that are self-delusional, reckless and wilful. Like you.
Not all sentient dream characters are nice. But they do obey the rules.