It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.