26 Quotes by Jarett Kobek

You can’t live that wild, in public, without the collective consciousness figuring out a way to suicide you.

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.

One of the curious aspects of the Twenty-First Century was the great delusion amongst many people, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, that freedom of speech and freedom of expression were best exercised on technological platforms owned by corporations dedicated to making as much money as possible.

There is literally no way to have an opinion, in public, in 2018 AD, and not be involved in the hierarchy of global evil.

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

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

The idea of privacy was rooted in the concept of individualism. As such, it was impossible to have privacy when the systems of control refused to see you as an individual.

Then Jesus died.And maybe he came back to life.Who fucking knows?Anything’s possible in a world so supranatural that Donald J. Trump ends up in control of 6,800 nuclear warheads.

Most of the comparisons between this book and the writings of the late Kurt Vonnegut will occur in cheap little reviews on Goodreads.com and Amazon.com, which are Internet websites owned by a guy named Jeff Bezos.These websites are where the American readership makes sure that American authors know their fucking place, and further ensures American authors know that their place is the equivalent to that of a moon-faced kid being shoved into some mud by a bully.