Community solidifies in aftermath.

The feeling of certitude can be awesome, but it's no substitute for the understanding of certainty; you just get there quicker, and with less effort.

"How? How can anyone be okay with all this?"

They simply look away.

In the real world, in real time, societal collapse does not occur for everyone on the same day.

At some point, the idea of waiving constitutional rights in exchange for a food card permitting the purchase of groceries, or for a ration card for gasoline, may be suggested as both necessary and natural.

You probably shouldn't let arguments like that sneak up on you.

Noise always comes from somewhere; quiet comes from within.

Usually teach Lord of the Flies at the end of the year but decided to move it up to February because, yeah, I dunno, felt like a good time to explore fascism and masculinity as brutality.

There are two basic responses to offensive behavior: admonishment, which assumes general participation in rational thought and is corrective in intent; and embarrassment, which assumes correction has been refused.

Spend your energy accordingly.

The material we build new communities from is always us, ourselves - the broken away yet remaining parts of what came before.

The fervor of patriots implies the ardor of matriots.

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