If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.
Max BrooksI don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
Max BrooksThe official report was a collection of cold, hard data, an objective "after-action report" that would allow future generations to study the events of that apocalyptic decade without being influenced by the "human factor." But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themeslves? By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it?
Max BrooksGu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.
Max BrooksWhen I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
Max BrooksLooking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.
Max BrooksTag: media news journalism spin
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Max BrooksAmericans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
Max BrooksTag: technology science-fiction brooks zombie zombies max-brooks world-war-z
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
Max BrooksTag: truth lies falsehood max-brooks world-war-z falsity
Fear sells.
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