“How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television.”
— Mario Vittone
“How did he recognize his world was sinking into suffocation when he was in a cave and everyone else was demanding that the problem was him? He had no contact with the victims, and barely any with their cultures. While he was trying to reach them, they were continuously waving him off, telling him to shut up, stand down, meditate, and so on…
They didn’t see that, right behind them, the entire future of their minds, children, and planet… was drowning. He had to fight them just to get them to stop attacking him long enough to help them redress the lethal ‘suffocation damage’ in their own minds… which none of them could detect.
They had been trained to recognize relational suicide by watching media. But he had observed lives, and minds… he knew the signs of a planet drowning in human hubris and myopia, and they were nearly always silent.”
— an anonymous informant
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