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It seems impossible, but we’ve been simultaneously convinced that we are rats in a corner, fighting for our lives, and lions who need to remind all else that we rule this reality. Our acts reflect that we believe both of these fallacies at the same time. We are no such things. We are deeply troubled [...]
It is our nature, our instinctual response to avoid the difficulty of confrontation. Some ignore this internal pull-back, this filter between our psyche and reality, and they may be considered, at the best, brave, or, at the worst, insane. But the hesitation exists in all. Most of us will go to such great lengths to avoid the [...]
Now. Now, more than ever. Now, when people are destroying what they believe they are protecting, as so often is the case. Now, when people feel righteous in their destruction. Now, when people trust the false as though it is divine. We are all being used.
The joke, as you now see or never will, is on us. Once it is there, the rest of your time will be filtered through the lens of that knowledge. The greatest art teaches you this while showing you how to laugh, whole-heartedly, the desperate laughs of insight and understanding for things that cannot change, [...]
“That will be $600.00. Please drive around.”
“Welcome to America. Can I take your order?”
“Um, yeah, I’ll take the truth and a side of compassion.”
“Sorry, we’re all out of those, but we do have a ton of bullshit opinions and conjecture. Don’t worry though, it’s like the same thing at this point, anyway.”
“Can I add bacon to that?”
“Sorry, no substitutions.”
“But what about freedom?”
“You have the freedom to choose if you want to eat or not.”
“Uh, okay, I guess. Do you guys have Coke or Pepsi?”
“We only carry Flint, MI tap water. Would you like that Super-sized?”
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