And they know you won't do that Tear down the moldy drywall, tear up the rotting floorboards, strip everything down to bare wood and brick and build anew only on what is structurally sound It's too hard, it's too expensive, you'd have nowhere to live in the meantime
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Well shit the cold hard truth of the world is you end up maintaining continuity whether you want to or not The ancestors will have their way with you, have in fact had their way with you since before you were born, and whether you choose to honor them has no bearing on this fact
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Such is life in the world of cause and effect It's the opposite - the idea of a blank slate, a fresh start, a true revolution - that is truly precious, almost nonexistent
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We really are a race of psychotic hoarders Fantasizing about the nightmare of being out on the streets with nothing - imagine if this house burned down! Imagine how much history would be lost! - while the weight of our accumulated trash threatens to bury us
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Can you blame people for getting into doomsday cults and praying for the nukes to go flying Burning down the house is always an irrational act, sure, and yet when you're looking at years of old newspapers piled high because the last owner thought they "might need them someday"
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