There's No Such Thing As Downtime For

A Mere Ape In Our World May Be A Scholar In Its Own, And The Low Life Of Any Beast May Be A Source Of Deep Satisfaction For The Beast Itself.

Spending $1 For A Brand New House Would Feel Very, Very Good. Spending $1,000 For A Ham Sandwich Would Feel Very, Very Bad. Spending $19,000 For A Small Family Car Would Feel, Well, More Or Less Right. But As With Physical Pain, Fiscal Pain Can Depend On The Individual, And Everyone Has A Different Threshold.

We Are All Born With An Innate Understanding Of Interpersonal Equity - The Idea That If You Lend Me Your Rake Today, I'll Respond In Kind When You Come To Borrow My Shovel Tomorrow. Or Nearly All Of Us Are Born With That. Psychopaths Aren't.

Narcissism Falls Along The Axis Of What Psychologists Call Personality Disorders, One Of A Group That Includes Antisocial, Dependent, Histrionic, Avoidant And Borderline Personalities. But By Most Measures, Narcissism Is One Of The Worst, If Only Because The Narcissists Themselves Are So Clueless.

Humans Have A Fraught Relationship With Beasts. They Are Our Companions And Our Chattel, Our Family Members And Our Laborers, Our Household Pets And Our Household Pests. We Love Them And Cage Them, Admire Them And Abuse Them. And, Of Course, We Cook And Eat Them.