Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.