Nobody has more contempt for liberal democracy than people who've never lived without it.
The Venn diagram of people who shout β€œTHIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” and people who have actually read 1984 is two circles so distinct and so far apart they might as well exist in different and incompatible multiverses
Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. You have a master's degree and three roommates. But at least you can summon any song ever recorded in 2 seconds, so it evens out?
Overthinkers don’t fear failure. We fear feedback. Because feedback ruins the fantasy of being right.
Westenberg.
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