Morgo

“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Karl Marx wrote...'The plains of Hindustan are strewn with the bleached bones of the weavers of Bengal" (sic). And so it is with our poor down-trodden Russulas. Just listen to how so called "mushroom lovers" malign this proletarian genus. Casting their broken bodies aside we mutter phrases like 'garbage mushroom' with disgust. It sounds almost like 'untouchable', or 'outcast'. Are not Russulas truly abundant even in drier months when the petit bourgeois genera are safely underground? Are they not toiling in mycorrhizal labors while capitalist [that is, parasitic] genera such as Honey Caps and Sulfur Shelf sponge off our forests? And are they not more colorful than the aristocratic Morchella of spring? Yes, yes, and yes. Perhaps their inscrutability, their resistance to macroscopic identification are what give rise to such unprovoked antagonism.”
― Jeff Donaghue

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr