All of us, when we travel, look at the places we go, the things we see, through different eyes. And how we see them is shaped by our previous lives, … - Anthony Bourdain

The whole system is designed for uniformity and ease — under worst-case-scenario circumstances,

These are the end products of the Masterminds of Safety and Ethics, bulked up on cheese that contains no cheese, chips fried in oil that isn’t really oil, overcooked gray disks of what might once upon a time have been meat, a steady diet of Ho-Hos and muffins, butterless popcorn, sugarless soda, flavorless light beer. A docile, uncomprehending herd, led slowly to a dumb, lingering, and joyless slaughter.

When I die, I want to come back as a Mexican, a Poblano, a fucking grown-up.