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Why do humans have to celebrate goddamn everything? Why is a funeral a “celebration of life”? Why are gloomy priests “celebrants”? Why are celebrities “celebrities”? What is it about people?
“Sad people don't really know what to do to make not-sad people more comfortable around them.”
― Comedy Sex God
― Comedy Sex God
“How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise.”
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis”
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“I know it sounds strange, but I look back on my depression fondly. So much anxiety in my life comes from not knowing what to do or how to behave, but everyone knows how to be sad.”
― Comedy Sex God
― Comedy Sex God
“The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human being.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
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