petes_bread_eqn_xlsMight be interesting to #pkm folks, even if only as a historical curiosity
Mark R. Stoneman
"The post-[1968] invasion regime in Czechoslovakia spoke of 'normalization,' which nicely caught the spirit of the moment. What was, was normal."
– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom (2018), chap. 2.
– Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!…
– Galileo: No. Unhappy the land where heroes are needed.
Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo," in Collected Plays: Five, trans. John Willet (Bloomsbury, 1995), scene 13.
"When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate in the demolition of our own political order."
– Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017), no. 14.
"It’s not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose—blatantly, to assert power over truth itself."
– Masha Gessen, quoted in Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality, (Workman Publishing, 2017), chap. 3.
