The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.