I might boast that, during all this scene of horror, not a sigh, or expression of fear, escaped me, had not my support been grounded in that miserable, though mighty, consolation, that all mankind were involved in the same calamity, and that I was perishing with the world itself.

— Pliny the Younger
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And with that, the chapter draws to a close…

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Girii: Don't you want to open your eyes, Jacob? Don't you want to see? Someone sent you a crate full of skulls -- don't you want to know who, and why? You've got missing memories -- don't you want to know what they are? Don't you want to open your eyes? They can never beat you if you open your eyes...

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  1. It’s a logical conclusion, for a species being bred with eyes wide shut…
    It used to be that desert preachers cursed the official myths to search truth and reality, today’s Stalins and Chomskies denounce reality and truth as being myths obscuring the “Elite’s” ever changing ideologies. Today’s Malthusians in power preach that half humanity must be destroyed for the good of “Gaia”, Gaia being their myth of the day…It is perfectly logical to predict that tomorrow’s Oi Oligoi will want to exterminate most of Oi Polloi…