How do I interpret what is going on it Iran right now? Much the way I interpret my life right now. Having a gun would make minimal difference in the face of state-empowered brutality.
You are soft. A soft, naive dreamer.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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