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I really don't care about the word utopia. It's useful, a shortcut. It describes a vague idea of a time or place of consensus about the unworkability of disparity, poverty, endless violence. I mean, these things don't work. You don't have to be a dreamer to see that.
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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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