Getting sick and tired of the New Dark Ages everywhere I turn. [View all]
Everywhere I go, it's more prudent to be silent than potentially inflame some maniac's sensibilities.
It's thought more civil and sensible to not speak than to say something that might be taken wrong.
Considered the mark of thoughtfulness to have no ideas than to have controversial ones.
More responsible to do nothing at all than to invoke the attention of misanthropic nihilists.
It's not even enough to think before you represent yourself, because the possible ways to piss someone off are now so vast and complex you can't possibly imagine all of them in advance.
You have to fucking hide like a rat to not be targeted.
You have to shut your mouth to not be shouted down.
You have to not be seen at all for your very existence to not be resented and snarled at.
In every little nook and cranny is some rule being violated by the fact that you breathe.
Under every branch is an agenda no one bothers to tell you about, but will be shoved down your throat if you run afoul of it.
If you make a habit of having and expressing ideas, you will be constantly blind-sided by crazed factions attacking you out of nowhere, for reasons you can't comprehend, and they treat your puzzlement as proof of guilt.
Byzantine mobs driven to bigoted frenzy by the controversies existing only in their heads.
The difference of a vowel divides the Holy and the Heretical.
And the most hated treason of all is common sense and common humanity.
How does one deal with unconscious degenerates without just sinking into their noise?
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