Basically: Destroying the wealth everybody can have for free, like beauty, truth and simple contentment, to sell cheap thrills that never quite satisfy. I don't

Basically: Destroying the wealth everybody can have for free, like beauty, truth and simple contentment, to sell cheap thrills that never quite satisfy. I don't care how cliché that sounds, I'm tired of how well that cliché holds up in the reality I see. And yes, I also think that it's ultimately a net negative, I'm not even sure the people who get wealthier and more powerful actually get wealthier and more powerful. Their thrills don't seem to last either, they kind of seem to get smaller, and apart from the destruction of the world around us basically everybody of us engages in and suffers from, some of them them also have a vastly bigger inner gulf to cross. I.e. to enjoy a sunset someone with a clean conscience only has to have the time and the sunset, but people with corpses in the basement still have to dig out from under those corpses and then get up the stairs and out the front door. There's a lot of shrillness these days, and I think exactly for that reason; people with mouths full of dirt screaming about how they wouldn't want to see a sunset anyway, how only losers would enjoy those more than the cold stone they're stuck under. A whole lot of posing going on. FWIW, I don't think any of us are exempt, I surely am not. Yeah I didn't start a war of aggression yet, and so on, but I hurt others for various dumb reasons, and often failed to even try to make up for it for even dumber or no reasons. It's a matter of degree though, and I would not want to swap with people in even deeper shit.