Survival in the Jungle of Rust

“This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” – Plato

“The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all possible means just so it can enjoy the show.”— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus. (Translation: We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes.)
— Detroit City Motto

“I’ve seen horrors . . . horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that . . . but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face . . . and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and mortal terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.” — Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now!,
written by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola