For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The world is decaying and needs radical change.
- In plain terms
- Society is dying slowly by destruction.
- What can you take from it?
- Radical change is needed now.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is incremental change enough?
Another view
Violent imagery may alienate readers.
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