society

Nobody wants to pay taxes, but everyone is happy to invest.

Our children's books, our iconography and our TV screens are still full of giraffes, wolves and chimpanzees, but the real world has very few of them left.

As far as David remembers, by the way, 4 percent of Americans answered that they had been decapitated.

Note that one sign of cultural collapse is the widespread inability to distinguish mental health from mental illness.

Ništa se nije dogodilo u svetu dok se nije prvo dogodilo u glavama.

When we look closely, we find that many of the assumptions of modern society are based on shared illusions.

I'm always amazed that progressive young millennials will picket a grocery chain for not buying fair-trade coffee but will go home and do drugs that are brought to them by the killers, torturers, and sadists of the cartels.

My children's school is missing certain subjects due to lack of teachers, the roads are full of potholes, the sidewalks littered with trash, buildings are gray and ugly and decrepit, people on the streets need food and shelter and care, the frigging planet is cooking and desperately in need of new kinds of housing, heating, transportation, entertainment—wherever you look there's work to be done; real, productive, meaningful, community-building work; and there are no jobs!! What's up with that? 1% of my country has as much money as the entire bottom 50% and no one's paying for work!! They just sit on the cash like dragons atop a pile of gold!! Best system my ass.

900 children die per day because they don't have access to clean water. I put it in a machine to make little clouds in my room so my throat isn't scratchy when I sleep at night.

The commission on the Sistine Chapel was 3000 ducats. The tomb of Pope Julius II was 10,000 ducats.