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    Super Event epigraphs 
My love, passion and agitation for freedom for the People of Biafra and the rest of African Nations must be achieved, and we shall be free from this mental and colonial enslavement, they will kill us, they will arrest us, they will intimidate us, but at the end we shall win, and my people shall be free and Biafra shall live.
Nnmadi Kanu (Accompanies Biafra's Most Decisive Victory)

I want all Nigerians everywhere in Nigeria to regard one another not as strangers but as Nigerians with common nationalities irrespective of their tribe or place of origin. From henceforth no reference to tribe or place of origin will appear in any official document.
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (Accompanies Nigeria's Gamble Succeeds)

We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of most men, as soon as they get a little authority, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.
Joseph Smith Jr. (Accompanies the United States' Death Knell)

We, in the UAE, have no such word as "impossible"; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress. [...] I require you, youth, to insist on number one.
Sheikh Mohammed (Accompanies the UAE crushing the Kafalas)

India did not win independence. If it does not attach itself to Britain, it attaches itself to the Soviet Union. And more than one half of their economy depends on you, [the United States].

Here at Blood River you stand on holy ground. Here was made the great decision about the future of South Africa, about Christian civilization in our land, and about the continued existence and responsible power of the White race. [...] You stand here upon the boundary of two centuries. Behind you, you rest your eyes on the year 1838,... Before you, upon the yet untrodden path of South Africa, lies the year 2038.
Daniel Francois Malan (Accompanies South Africa's Collapse)

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
Nelson Mandela (Accompanies the Black Redemption Front seizing South Africa)

God is not unjust, God is not unjust.
Kantano Habimana (Accompanies Malema's Black Redemption Front seizing South Africa)

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Yasser Arafat (Accompanies the Hebrew Civil War)

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Wernher von Braun (Accompanies The Next Step Into The Stars)

In our time, the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.
Ray Bradbury (Accompanies We're Not Alone!)

    Capitulation Messages 
And so history moves forward.
Generic Quote

If Biafra doesn't live, that means there's no God in heaven.
Republic of Biafra

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
Federal Republic of Nigeria

I will gather all nations
(...)There I will put them on trial for what they did to Israel, as
they have scattered my people among the nations
And divided up my land.
Federal Republic of Nigeria (Biafran Revolt)

The line between democracy and dictatorship is as thin as a piece of paper.
Republic of Munia

By thy bountiful hand, raise this land of freedom, To exult among the nations proud and free. O'er the vales from shore to Ako, From the surging waves of Ambas Bay...
Federal Republic of Ambazonia

Nous avons tout quitté, Parents, gourbis, foyers, Et nous gardons au coeur Une invincible ardeur Car nous voulons porter haut et fier Le beau drapeau de notre France entière;
Cameroon

If there was to be equal suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the position which whites have striven for 300 years would be given up.
Black Redemption Front (Capitulated by the SAF)

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Black Redemption Front (Capitulated by the ZAF)

Their (the Voortrekkers) freedom was, above all, the freedom to preserve themselves as a White Race.
Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (Capitulated by the SAF)

O bring my terug na die ou Transvaal, Daar waar my Sarie woon. Dar onder in die mielies, by die groen doring boom, Daar woon my Sarie Marais. Tr. 
Republic Of South Africa (Capitulated by the BRF)

And even though these were the faces and the sufferings of our enemy, one had... a deeper sense of the common humanity which knows no racial distinctions.
Republic Of South Africa (Capitulated by the ZAF)

The bone given to you by the king is meat.
Namibia (Capitulated by the SAF)

Even a weak lion is not bitten by a dog.
Namibia (Capitulated by the ZAR)

The sacred call of the fatherland is resounding in our ears, the ardent blood of our heroic predecessors is seething in our hearts!
Republic of the Union of Burma

For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthronement of the Right, I am born from age to age.

We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that.
People's Republic Of The Persian Gulf

Patriotism is the exact opposite of Nationalism.
Italian Social Republic

Proletarian violence, carried on as a pure and simple manifestation of the sentiment of class struggle, appears thus as a very fine and heroic thing; it is at the service of the immemorial interests of civilization.
Socialist Republic of Romania

The architect of (our) modern democracy, pardon me to say this, was me. The one who's birthed the Constitution that all of you respect.
Peru

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"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
Theodore J. Kaczysnki, Industrial Society and Its Future

"Nothing human makes it out of the near-future."
Nick Land

"Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money..."
James Ferraro

"In many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable demonstration of loyalty...."
Mencius Moldbug

"If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide; Do you want software to be written, or not?"
Bill Gates

"When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people. Those who love life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides of the boat.''
Pentti Linkola

"Neo-Japan Arrives from the future."

"With a smothering shroud of six billion people and all their demands covering the surface of the earth, pacifism is dead."
Pentti Linkola

"[...]Phase-out culture accelerates through its digitech-heated adaptive landscape, passing through compression thresholds normed to an intensive logistic curve; 1500, 1756, 1884, 1948, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011 ..."
Nick Land

"[The] Digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud[...]"
Steve Jobs

"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."
Steve Jobs

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
Andy Warhol
"I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away[...]"
Andy Warhol

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica

"The place is unreal. The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal—they don't smell. The fruit is unreal. Even the streets and buildings are unreal.[...]That's what Hollywood is—a set, a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set."
Ethel Barrymore

"MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY."
L. Ron Hubbard, Principles of Money Management

"When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world."
Yukio Mishima

"Today is a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan. Like karate and karaoke. Manga and anime. And, of course, emojis."
Barack Obama

"Some of us are still Marxists, you know."
Anonymous guest of Virtual Futures 96 after meeting Nick Land

"Few people in this country have been able to live the American Dream to the extent that I have... Neither political party has effectively addressed the issues that concern the American people."
Ross Perot

"Perhaps the easiest way for a modern American to understand Nazism is that a good Brownshirt thought about preserving the Deutsche Volk in exactly the same way that today's Greens think about preserving the Environment."
Curtis Yarvin

"Anime—indeed, even anime porn—has done more to advance European civilization than the Republican Party."
Richard B. Spencer, Twitter

"I rule the fucking world. Those pieces of fucking shit get ruled by people like me. They look up and see a face like mine looking down at them. That’s how the fucking world works."
Richard B. Spencer

"Experience is being wiped out. The horizons of Past and Future are being blurred. We are being conditioned to live an endless and uncertain Present, reduced to citizens in a state of Forgetfulness."
John Berger

"Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide.(...) Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind."
George W. Bush

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods."
J.G. Ballard

"Options multiply around us, We live in an almost infantile world where any demand, any possibility, whether for life-styles, travel, sexual roles and identities, can be satisfied instantly."
J.G. Ballard

"Communism is as American as apple pie, and America today is a completely communist country."
-Curtis Yarvin

Alternative Title(s): Twilight On The Anthropocene

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