Kitchener

“As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.”
― Matt Taibbi, Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season

“You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.”
― J.D. Salinger

“In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy.

We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future