Status Updates From The Garden of Seven Twilights

“We’re living through a crisis of values and perspectives, of collective consciousness, as we did fifty years ago or eighty years ago, with the inconvenience that, to emerge from the earlier ones, the world already used up its best options. Now, there’s no language to replace the old, nor a credible mystery to fill the void.”

Perhaps the trap is having to work in order to live. In an evolved society, it maybe as barbarous and primitive as slavery seems to us for a person’s way of life to depend on his origins, his capabilities, and his luck. If all people are equal before the law, then they should have equal access to benefits, and there would be no need for the illusion of dignity in order to raise an army of slaves clothed as freedmen.