“Here’s a suggestion: let’s stop expecting the stupefied and those so damaged by toxic culture that they obviously require rescue to suddenly cast off the almost obligatory cognitive and relational impoverishments that have become their habit and change the world.

Complaining about ambient or cultural stupidity is too much like like shoveling fertilizer into it. If you want to taste liberty, or even intelligence, you must become the roads. Period.”

— an anonymous informant