The Civilization That Could Be
What if thriving wasn’t a miracle—just a decision?By Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™
Length45m
About this audiobook
The body goes first. Shoulders come down that had been up for forty years, a braced animal sets down a load it never knew it carried, and the mind comes scrambling after, appalled, certain this is how the good cults work. But the place performs no tricks and sells nothing — it keeps its own failures lit in a long cold hall so it can never lie to itself about how the gentleness ends. Somewhere in there the old creed, that anyone promising a better life is running a con, stops being wisdom and turns out to be grief in a coat. And the hand starts making a sign the mind refuses, over and over, in the loud world and the quiet one alike, long after there is nothing left to sell and no seam left to open.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Dystopia
Length45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
65 — Too Clean
21 — The Loud World
76 — The Ghost Cities
32 — The Hum
87 — What I Left
43 — Who Pays
98 — Going Home
54 — The Long Afternoon
109 — The Wanting
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Cultural TariffsChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 14m$4.99
CatchmentChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 24m$4.99
Nanny StateChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 12m$4.99
The ViaChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 20m$4.99
LoggedChris A. Piazza | Antherra™37m$4.99
DeaccessionChris A. Piazza | Antherra™48m$4.99
RemandChris A. Piazza | Antherra™37m$4.99
Color Me DrunkChris A. Piazza | Antherra™45m$4.99
StemsChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 18m$4.99
15 Buried InventionsChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h$4.99
Chain of CustodyChris A. Piazza | Antherra™42m$4.99
TitrationChris A. Piazza | Antherra™49m$4.99
CompactChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 48m$4.99
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