And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.