# Quote — David Brin, Kil’n People

> “Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else’s—indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. To be hero of an ongoing drama. It’s why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic.
>
> “Subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature’s champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet…and to our species nearly wiping itself out.”

- Author: [David Brin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin.md)
- Book: [Kil’n People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people.md)
- Page: 318
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin#Kiln_People_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people/each-of-us-remains

## More from this book

> Oh, there’s no high quite like getting the focused attention of powerful enemies. Nothing is better guaranteed to make you feel important in the world, which may be why conspiracy theories are so popular among frustrated underachievers.

p. 400 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people/oh-theres-no-high.md)

> Fortunately, there is a famous inverse relation between fanaticism and competence.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people/fortunately-there-is-a-famous.md)

> None of these problems resolved by the prescriptions of shamans and priests. Not by patronizing mystics or condescending monks.
>
> Technology. That’s what made things better! In fits and starts—and often horribly abused along the way—that’s where we found answers that were consistent, dependable, uncapricious. Answers that applied to lord and vassal alike. Answers that improved life across the board and never went away.

p. 467 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people/none-of-these.md)