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I really thought our society was built around "a human being is a human being like the next." I didn't realize the sheer amount of manufactured materials built around oneself boosted one's position on the social hierarchy while making one's way around the public sphere—and the capacity for velocity being a great boon to that.
The bottom line is that there are laws in place to ensure we all have relatively equal rights of travel and passage in the areas within which we live. And thank goodness for that.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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