{"quotes":[{"text":"I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.","author":"Isaac Marion","tags":["civilization","collapse","dead","death","disease","end","ending","extinction","important","life","living","plague","ponder","question","rotten","war","wonder","world"],"id":12889,"author_id":"Isaac+Marion"},{"text":"Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["art","artificial","camera","celluloid","collapse","disturing","enigma","fake","family","film","flash","happy","instamatic","kodachrome","kodak","kodak-moment","lens","lie","memory","mystery","nikon","nostalgia","photo","photography","sad","scary","see-through","trapped","wall","zoom"],"id":23400,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","buy","buyer","buyers","capitalism","childfree","childless","collapse","communism","consumer","consumerism","consumers","credit","debt","deep","democracy","dictum","dictums","economies","economy","enjoy","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","karl-marx","made-me-think","make-you-think","marxism","materialism","maxim","maxims","own","ownership","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","realization","realize","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","socialism","socialist","socialists","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","world-economies"],"id":25717,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are - in the things we do - in the things we say.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["act","action","baby-steps","better-yourself","collapse","grand-things","perspective","rebirth","say","self-awareness","self-control","self-improvement","small"],"id":44705,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Hollow slogans like 'Making your country great again' only lead to one result, collapse.","author":"Paul Levitz","tags":["collapse","great","nation-building"],"id":55249,"author_id":"Paul+Levitz"},{"text":"He tans into burning while the opening fanfare to 'Peaches en Regalia' flows over him, the bugle call for a hippie army that marched at the peak of the American parabola, that moment when physics held its breath to allow levitation, a small reward before the descent. The hippies knew it then, Maggot Boy Johnson thinks; they couldn't build it into words but they could feel it; a floating in the stomach as history shifted direction. They stopped, hey, what's that sound, and knew that the spiny skyscrapers reflected in the river, the chasms of concrete, the wide streets and sidewalks, the power lines cutting into the hills and mountains above missile silos, the highways drawing lines across the blank plains under enormous skies, the pupil of God's eye, would be the ruins that their grandchildren wandered among, the reminders that once there was always water in the faucet, there was electricity all the time, and America was prying off the shackles of its past. The vision opened up to them and winked out again, and those it blinded staggered through their lives unable to see anything else, while the rest of them wondered if they had only dreamed it.","author":"Brian Francis Slattery","tags":["collapse","hippies","history","society"],"id":99851,"author_id":"Brian+Francis+Slattery"},{"text":"Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) has appeared in the general population at approximately the same time as Bee Colony Collapse.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["appeared","approximately","bcc","bee","collapse","colony","ehs","electromagnetic","general","hypersensitivity","population","same","time"],"id":102308,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn't yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly.","author":"John Darnielle","tags":["at-last","collapse","grief","spectacular"],"id":136856,"author_id":"John+Darnielle"},{"text":"Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.","author":"Carolyn Baker","tags":["activism","collapse","fear","sacred"],"id":139321,"author_id":"Carolyn+Baker"},{"text":"Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["against","are","collapse","equity","god","know","land","men","necessarily","preachers","religious","societies","stand","their","there","they","up","ways","where","women","worthy"],"id":140433,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}