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July 2021

Someday, perhaps not long from now, the inhabitants of a hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet than the one on which I lived may wonder what you and I were thinking, or whether we thought at all. … Of course we did it to ourselves; we had always been intellectually lazy, and the less asked of us, the less we had to say. … We all lived for money, and that is what we died for.

William Vollmann

[Morrison’s] core competency is not taking responsibility for anything that goes even a little bit pear-shaped, while snatching up the gold medal glory for themselves when things do go well. There is an even more cynical aspect to this however, and that’s the way Morrison has hijacked the civic capital of a national, non-political institution like the Army to protect himself and his government from legitimate critique and condemnation. In this he has made a human shield of General Frewen. (Alien Sideboob, July 9, 2021)

John Birmingham