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Japan’s legal system was a curious one in which courts often enough violated the country’s constitution in favor of broader but unwritten cultural mores, something unthinkable to Americans.
This is a curious comment, given that Ryan later gripes about Roe v. Wade being a case wrongly decided by the Supreme Court. That would seem to be a case where the Court recognized a right not clearly enumerated in the Constitution in deference to "cultural mores."
“Vengeance is the cheapest of motivations, it’s a tin star on a shabby coat. I want answers is all that I want.”
― World of Trouble
― World of Trouble
“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 from under it 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 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.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.”
― Ready Player Two
― Ready Player Two
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
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Our thoughts on a book, on a screen… Gnomon is a mind-bender. A mind blower! So much that it’s hard to know where to begin discussing it. But I love ...more
Our thoughts on a book, on a screen… Gnomon is a mind-bender. A mind blower! So much that it’s hard to know where to begin discussing it. But I love ...more
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Welcome to the book group for fans of the Omnibus podcast with Ken Jennings and John Roderick.
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