Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Yeah some guys seem to never move past that stage. I read it when I was like 22 and it really struck me. I was definitely one of those guys who thought I could be a super badass unlike all the other sheep around me. That quote hit me hard as it made me realize I wasn't special at all, it honestly changed my out look on life.
Only part of this quote that's wrong.
Yeah some guys seem to never move past that stage. I read it when I was like 22 and it really struck me. I was definitely one of those guys who thought I could be a super badass unlike all the other sheep around me. That quote hit me hard as it made me realize I wasn't special at all, it honestly changed my out look on life.
Good ol' Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson knocked it out of the park with that one
Yeah it's an all time favorite of mine
I need to check that one out. I read Seveneves and it was really cool and weird but the ending kinda gave me :sus-deep: vibes when they
spoiler
decide to do extreme eugenics for some very ambiguous reasons and it never seems like there was a critique of that fact it just happens
Be forewarned there is a :libertarian-approaching: moment (age of consent and otherwise questionable consent)
Fuckin boomers man.