society

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.

Sex-cynicism and race-pessimism, of course, often travel in tandem.

Many from the generation that hated & bullied 'nerds' in HS in the 80s & early-90s (and perpetuated anti-nerd hate) are now the same anti-intellectuals on social media calling people 'elitists' & 'snobs' for speaking like they're informed or educated.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Ništa se ne dešava jer niko ništa ne shvata.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

The Internet was awesome until everyone showed up.