thought about it everyday even though it did him no good and indeed served only to drain his and the day's good feeling

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the auditory and pixillated forms of media fomenting a never-ending blizzard and tsunami of base human stupidity, ignorance, bigotry, bullshit, and hypocrisy, American-style. And you are the prey. In mindless seeming perpetuity and all according to a certain plan: more power more wealth more control for your rulers, more more more for your rulers. Your rulers.

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what to do? can't ignore, can't deny, can't convince anyone around here of anything either these days really since rational argument long ago left the building and opinions being like assholes, etc.

only thing you might do is try to tell it in a different way so that people might see it first and foremost but also in a way that might cause them to feel something moral or decent. that of course is the power of any kind of narrative art: the ability to move an audience toward a certain singularity of human emotion