The living as no more and no less than a temporarily differentiated species of the dead

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An engaged citizenry won’t save us from an engaged citizenry.

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America’s ego ideal of its own always-becoming sanctity is Samson’s hair and Delilah’s shears.

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Clickbait might instantiate way for how to reverse engineer bullshit out of a vacuum, a net negative return that pillories the first law of thermodynamics.   

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Anger can be a gift, a return on investment, is one takeaway.   Eventually it takes more than it gives, but not at inception.  It needs to be supplanted with something less corrosive, but without being lost or inaccessible. And you can’t go on making a confession of life, or else anger’s gift, like charisma’s plucky verve, will dissipate beyond the point of recompense.

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You may not be interested in the metaphysics, but the cladistics are without apology interested in you.   

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I was not going to do this anymore for a time that seems not too long ago.  Call it nearly five years.  Everything denotation, and nothing connotative. And it keeps coming back.