"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?" -Emil Cioran

"When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the death of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life." -Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

Expect nothing from society. Get nothing from society. Give nothing back to society. Do nothing but roll over and die.

He seems annoyed because the nuclear blast isn't close enough for a painless and clueless exit and now his hands are wet and soggy from doing the things he doesn't find meaningful at his final moments.

"Yet virtually no one talks about it. Why did Keynes’ promised utopia—still being eagerly awaited in the ‘60s—never materialise? The standard line today is that he didn’t figure in the massive increase in consumerism.” -David Graeber

“Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul.

"In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless.

“In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right.

The customers are boomers, zoomers are hanging out less, everything is getting expensive

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"Just use feeling." -Uncle Roger

forced existence is like BDSM but without your consent

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It can be as simple as drinking a glass of water dissolved with pentobarbital. The overdose depresses the central nervous system, causing the patient to become drowsy and fall asleep within 3–5 minutes of drinking it; anesthesia progresses to coma, followed by respiratory arrest and painless death.