The struggle of living in the real world is to not be homogenized by mainstream culture and then also the simultaneous struggle to not let all your less homogenous opinions become expressible only by reblogging angry strangers on the internet.

newyorker:

Throwing a sequester shindig this weekend? Of course you are! But if you want to be the host or hostess with the mostest, be sure your guests are able to drown their frustration in our democracy with these tasty drinks. It’ll make for a night you can’t ever remember (not that you would…

(Source: newyorker.com)

In parts of Africa little boys were still stolen away by adult slave traders and sold for money to men who disemboweled them and ate them. Yossarian marveled that children could suffer such barbaric sacrifice without evincing even the slightest hint of fear or pain. He took it for granted that they did submit so stoically. If not, he reasoned, the custom would certainly have died, for no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22