To see the farm is to leave it.

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.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.