It’s amazing how self-perpetuating ignorance is. - Algis Budrys

I do what seems best—I live, I let live; so far I’ve done well. I don’t see why I should act like a predator, simply because I’m in a predatory society. I’m a human being, I’m myself—if I make my life something vicious, who’ll give me another if, too late, I regret what I’ve done?

We are born of Humankind—
This our destiny:
To bitter dwell in discontent
Wherever we may be.

Only gods and television audiences see the pattern of human events.