But… something something Empire! Rabble rabble Democracy!

And forgo all that sweet, sweet Starbucks endorsement scratch?

As much as I’d like to give the author their pittance (the publisher makes more than they do) I couldn’t afford to read if I bought even half the books I burn through and I’d have no place to sleep. Patronize your libraries and make donations. They are truly priceless resources. DO NOT LET YOUR LEGISLATURE DEFUND THEM. You don’t have to be a “consumer” to enjoy all the wonderful words out there. That IS the purpose of the library. Because there should be no price of admission for wonderful ideas. Your income should not preclude your access to ideas. If it does YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Please understand I’m not criticizing you. Just trying to help. If we only read what we buy libraries will go away and that will be a crucial blow to an imaginative society that can think. Break the mindset that only money deserves information. That shit led to the dark ages when only the powerful had information. Be your part of a literate society! If you can’t donate to your library system, just check out one book more than you can finish in the time and pay the late fee. The librarian always apologizes for them but I tell her/him I’m glad to pay them since I no longer pay municipal property tax in the area. And they smile and say, “ah. You GET it.”

Oh to put it better, if you’re thinking of “dating” as a “market,” then you are only “objectifying” EVERYONE INCLUDING yourself and aren’t mature enough to learn what treating people as people with real respect and consideration ACTUALLY MEANS. You’re still defining YOU (and others) as THINGS to “make you happy” when you’re still empty inside. If you behave as an “object,” the world at large will believe you and treat you accordingly.

Oh FFS. Treating romantic companionship like economics only works if you don’t care about WHO you date. If you could bear to figure out who you are on your own for a couple of years and don’t make a “hobby” out of “dating,” you might actually have a chance to figure out who YOU are and the kind of person you can ACTUALLY be successful with, who CONTRIBUTES to your NORMAL life and vice versa. Until you stop think “dating” is an “activity” you should be practicing all the time, you’ll never figure out what you should REALLY be doing.

I think it’s perfectly sane to question/criticize the government. We require them to have documents limiting their power before we count them an non-autocratic for a reason. But assuming EVERYTHING is fake isn’t very sane either.

Britain has been at this a long time. IF it were a false flag operation, they’d at least had the wherewithal to get a guy without a London twang.  Sometimes reality IS stranger than fiction.

No property is worth waiting longer than the property itself runs for. Any trip that is longer than the stay is not worth the trip (unless the trip was the point, in which case, congrats being a rookie).

Sorry, hedge-fund employees. You live with apes, you won’t come out clean.

I do pretty well sitting on the floor spread-legged and lightly stretching on the side of the page I’m reading. Helps keep me limber while I read. Hard to stretch the neck and shoulders though because you gotta keep dem eyes on dat page.