Jarett Kobek Quotes

#1. You can't stop the gears of capitalism. But you can always be a pain in the ass.

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#2. The most uninteresting thing in the world is watching narcissists fuck each other.

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#3. The Internet was a wonderful invention. It was a computer network which people used to remind other people that they were awful pieces of shit.

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#4. The world was run by its bankers. The world was run by its investor class. The world was run by its manufacturers. The history of human destiny was money, the men who controlled it, and nothing more. Money, a measure of humiliation, was the only thing that mattered.

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#5. Sometimes it feels like there are only eleven people in the world and the rest are paste.

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#6. It's so easy to demonstrate your own righteousness and it's so easy to challenge the social order when all you're doing is picking on idiots who are better off ignored and left to wither in the stench of their own lives! You

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#7. JACK KIRBY is also the central personage of this novel because this is not a good novel. This is a seriously mixed-up book with a central personage who never appears. The plot, like life, resolves into nothing and features emotional suffering without meaning.

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#8. The whole world was on a script of loss and people only received their pages moments before they read their lines.

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#9. The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people.

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#10. agreements were documents of inequality codified under American law, which had always favored property rights over liberties of the individual. This made any landlord the most important person in his or her tenants' lives, capable of enacting terrible vengeance on the slightest whim.

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#11. Loyalty is the world's only currency and it depreciates constantly.

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#12. The illusion of the internet was the idea that the opinions of powerless people, freely offered, had some impact on the world. This was, of course, total bullshit.

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#13. It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death.

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#14. Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.

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#15. More than anything, The One True God was a potent weapon used by sexually repressed members of society to inflict misery on everyone else.

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#16. Uncoincidentally, Instagram was also the first social-media platform to which the only sane reaction was hate.

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#17. Adeline hadn't owned a television since 1992.
She'd suffered fifteen years hearing about how the Internet would transform American culture and open new avenues of expression.
But in the end, it was only more people talking about television.

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