All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt for every soul in the world: all the fear and the wish to save concentrated unjustly on the one child. He began to weep.... He thought: This is what I should feel all the time for everyone.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Written By John Scalzi

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