n.a.i.n 3

“In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don’t, then the agenda-makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay.

QUELLCRIST FALCONER
Things I Should Have Learnt By Now
Vol II”

new and improved nihilism sequel

Male-sleeved;
 Stop up your hormones
 Or spend them in moans
 Of other calibre
 (We'll reassure you – the load is large enough)
 Blood-pumped
 Pride in your prowess
 Will fail you, fuck you
 And everything you touch
 (You'll reassure us – the price was small enough)

Takeshi Kovacs, on wars.

new and improved nihilism

“Face the facts. Then act on them. It's the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it's harder than you'd think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don't pray, don't wish, don't buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don't give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of... whatever. FACE THE FACTS. THEN act.”
― Quellcrist Falconer

Things I Should Have Learnt by Now, Volume II

The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political.
 So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally.
         Get angry.

 The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them.
         Make it personal.
         Do as much damage as you can.
         Get your message across. 

That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference – the only difference in their eyes – between players and little people.

     Players they will make deals with. 
     Little people they liquidate.

 And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it PERSONAL.

                                                                                          Quellcrist Falconer