Perfect
Capitalism is the best system ever devised for creating populations of ignorant docile people
History
Old times
Old photos: old family; old friends; old pets; old places; old events; old hopes; old dreams.
Corrupt
Give one human being a small amount of power over another and they will inflict small cruelties. Give them absolute power and they will inflict unspeakable cruelties.
The devil you know
The chillingphrase that makesTrump’s positioncompletely secureis “PresidentMike Pence”.
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Where the living is easy
Biographies give me the comforting feeling that life is arranged in patterns, has structure, can be understood rationally, and will turn out all right in the end.
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Reality has a real bias
It seems impossible to get the World’s media to understand that Game of Thrones is not the real world, but that there is indeed a real world which is not a tv show.
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How did this happen?
We have a Prime Minister who claps along to silly hymns, and raises his hands to an imaginary heaven, all the while with a dim-witted smile on his face, and surrounded by identical clones.
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Bomb blast
You’re notgoing to heaven,they’re notgoing to hell,there is noheaven, no hell,bombers andvictims, you’reall just dead.Try living.
No, not possible
Odd how quickly the absolutely certain memories we have of incidents in our past dissolve into confusion in the spotlight of a diary.