“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.”
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The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.”
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“I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”
― Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”
― Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.”
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“Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.”
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