Aristotle [would] Probably Conclude Most Americans, For

It's A Difficult Business, Creating A New, Alternative Civilization.

People Don't Have An Ongoing Relation Unless It's A Form Of Debt Because Everything Is An Exchange, So Ongoing Relationships Are Incomplete Exchanges, And Therefore One Party Is Probably To Blame - More Likely Than Not, Both Are. Sociality Itself Seems To Become Like A Matter Of Sin, And Inherently Wrong.

In The Largest Scheme Of Things, Just As No One Has The Right To Tell Us Our True Value, No One Has The Right To Tell Us What We Truly Owe.

We Have Become A Plague Upon Ourselves And Upon The Earth. It Is Cosmically Unlikely That The Developed World Will Choose To End Its Orgy Of Fossil Energy Consumption, And The Third World Its Suicidal Consumption Of Landscape. Until Such Time As Homo Sapiens Should Decide To Rejoin Nature, Some Of Us Can Only Hope For The Right Virus To Come Along.

Capitalism Is Like This Fractal Thing Where Anything That Contains An Element Of Capitalism Anywhere Inside It Is Just Something That Turns Into Capitalism. It Is An Incredibly Defeatist Attitude. If You Choose To Look At Reality That Way, I Suppose You Can, But You Have To Do Enormous Violence To Reality To Do So Consistently.