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“The fact that some people are diving for the lowest rung of the ladder, or even inventing a lower one, doesn’t change the fact that I sure as fuck won’t follow them down… and there’s a whole population of us. Don’t let our modest...

003486

“There is no credit so insignificant that he will not lie to claim it.” — an anonymous informant (AS)

003487

Features of a disease do not change because we call them out or yell at them, particularly if one has, like nearly all of us, failed to form any effective, meaningful, or intelligent collectivity — which is to say: an actual society. What will tend to happen in that...

003488

Part of deciding what something or who someone is… is deciding something akin to “what (it)they are for”… in the sense of ‘(its)their role or function in my life’. True, False, or Other (kindly specify)?

003489

When we encounter a person or situation, a process or unknown object… we begin to use a specific array of skills to determine its meaning, identity, whether it represents a threat or an opportunity, its potential value, and so on. This is a process I call...

003491

Doctor: The test results just came back. I am afraid your entire government has become cancerous. Citizen: So what can you do? Doctor: We have an operation where we can replace it with a society that is humane, nobly motivated, intelligent and sustainable. Citizen:...