Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

We've become the saddest sort of hedonist culture, the kind that develops because caring about anything else in any way that elevates you as an individual designates you prey for the crowd's hungry maw

If you care about children, become a teacher — not a parent. If you care about ideas, join a book club — not a think tank. If you want to make life better for people, become a doctor — not an entrepreneur. All must be socially regulated. All gates must be kept

Join the Fight for 15! Because the corporate overlords who you hate must not be stopped, only forced to pay enough to keep the lights on while you drink yourself to death amidst the realization that society thinks you're a cog that functions below the cost of keeping you going

I think you know something is wrong when the most you can do is carry a mass-print sign somebody else handed you while chanting a slogan somebody else is shouting through a megaphone. But you're a good cog, and you can't quite put a name to the miasma gnawing on you

It's not many generations ago that we were basically a loose-knit nation of criminally independent scofflaws. Now those people are nutcases we laugh at while our children hang themselves in their closets and we fantasize about the ~10 years we'll get between retirement & death

A puzzle that irked me when I was younger: why do people kill themselves? Why don't they run away? Show up in a new town with a new identity? Rob a bank? Try heroin? Shouldn't anything be on the table? I didn't understand that if they still had any such spark, they could live

Wouldn’t some semblance of hope be necessary for all those things?