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When you begin to listen to and believe the thoughts and opinions of those who could not possibly understand over the advocation of those who truly do, you have taken the first step of emboldening an opinion based solely on fear into your contrived version of reality; one that you know or knew, at one [...]
Truth is the most expensive commodity known, and, at this point, we won’t even know when we hear it. Insignificant fragments of it are a thing to be owned, bought, and sold. Brilliant and arrogant so-and-sos have so delicately toiled to intelligently disguise it; stirred it into a homogeneous, inseparable solution with half-truths, blatant lies, [...]
We are now weathered by the damning knowledge of years; by the shift from blind confidence to grim, pragmatic understanding. Now, we counter the disappointing and inevitable with doomed longing for all outcomes to defy the proof of experience despite our familiarity. In the past, in the blissful ignorance of youth, I always thought I [...]
When most claim to prefer originality; that they enjoy the anarchy of free thought and new ideas, what they really mean is they just have an entirely different set of rules which are just as limiting as any other person’s ideas of what is “good” and what is not. Listen as they explain their preferences [...]
I want to teach my daughter to be a free thinker, to question authority, to be self-actualized and independent. I also want her to brush her teeth and go to F$@&ING BED at 7:30. I think when I say to her, “Ari, I’ve read you 6 books, you had two glasses of milk, we rocked [...]
Joseph D. Newcomer 