"I lived through the end of a civil war. Do you know what it was like for me? [...] I went to work, I went out, I dated. This is what Americans don’t understand. They’re waiting to get personally punched in the face while ash falls from the sky. That’s not how it happens." https://twitter.com/AtomicOvermind/status/1309975938332008448">https://twitter.com/AtomicOve...

"I was looking through some old photos for this article and the mix is shocking to me now. Almost offensive. There’s a burnt body in front of my office. Then I’m playing Scrabble with friends. There’s bomb smoke rising in front of the mall. Then I’m at a concert."

"If you’re trying to carry on while people around you die, your society is not collapsing. It’s already fallen down."

The question is—what good can we build out of its ashes?