“There are new miners in America now, mining your social security number and your privacy and your rights and freedom. Mining the Treasury, which they will pocket. … Mining Congress and coming up empty, because they already bought it. Checks and balances drift like a discarded receipt in the breeze. The real money is dark money, untraceable, but you can still see oligarch names on campaign contribution lists. They like to show proof of purchase.”
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“You need imagination to survive an Aftermath State, where you’ve long abandoned the idea of not being abandoned. You have to want to avenge nature, and reclaim the romance in the wreckage, or you will go mad in a much less appealing way.
You can collect lead, or you can load it.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Miners
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“I held my son’s hand in the dark, even though he’s too old for that. He knew I was sad and let me. I wanted him to see something miraculous but natural. I wanted him to look through a screen, not at a screen, and witness something true.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Miners
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“Elon Musk is the product of a mining magnate. To the degree that he is a self-made man, it is because he made a powerful illusion of himself, and marketed it to other illusionists, none of whom value anything human.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Miners
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“Thievery has moved beyond the concrete schemes of past centuries and into a digital void that ordinary people do not know how to navigate — other than to identify what plutocrats stole from them. And that our country is one of those things. And that the earth is one of those things, and it screams as they mine it again — for contrived currency and artificial intelligence. For replacements for human beings as they work towards global depopulation.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Miners
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“We used to live on borrowed time, but now we live on stolen time, because the oligarchs are taking that too. They are deleting our data and records and history. The final step is deleting people, the last repositories of memory.
The faster this disaster happens, the slower moves my mind.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Miners
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“There is nothing I can write to derail this catastrophe that I haven’t written already. I am worn from warning. What is a warning, anyway, but a declaration of what you love and want to protect?”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Miners
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