Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.

“God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, ‘Sit up!’
‘See all I've made,’ said God, ‘the hills, the sea, the
sky, the stars.’
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look
around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.”

"there's only one rule that i know of, babies: god dammit, you've got to be kind."

“where’s evil? it’s that large part of every [person] that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with god on its side” is such a remarkably clear insight and it’s made all the difference for me in making sense of sense of the last 25 years.

this feels like a lot of words to obscure the pretty obvious dynamics at work: economic distress and political elites willing to weaponize gutter bigotry.

imagine John Wayne Gacy, fully integrated into society, followed awkwardly by a robot that looks like the Greendale Human Being and grabs him whenever he lurches towards a young boy

Anyway, help us make stuff like this:

The problem of metaphor again. The show used the conspiracy lore as a way of being absolutely fucking furious about US capitalism, imperialism, political corruption, social injustice, etc. What did people take from it? "Hey maybe the government IS putting microchips in vaccines!" Sigh.