Deranged

an article by Joan Harvey published in 3 Quarks Daily


Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash

If you can get the old voting against state-subsidized healthcare, and the poor voting in favor of cuts to inheritance tax, then democratic capitalism really is workable after all.
Malcolm Bull

As the objective view of the world recedes, it is replaced by intuition as to which way things are heading now.
William Davies

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
Maggie Smith “Good Bones”

Mark Twain, in his wonderful Letters from the Earth, nails the essence of human unreason. It’s not just the creation story with a talking snake, but how man has conceived of heaven, at least in Christianity.

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Hazel’s comment:
I cannot truthfully say that this is an enjoyable read but it is great pessimism!
It is also worth going to the end and reading the comments.

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