Friendship

The obligations of friendship are not ob-ligations. That's what Jesus meant when he said his burden was light.
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Types of Ignorance

In Mexico I learned there was no more use trying to explain certain things to Indians than to explain Kant to a cat. One’s efforts would be met with a kind of mental deafness or, if heard, with occasional hostility or sometimes with that existential irony that knocks you on your butt.

On returning to the US, I thought I would be returning to burgertum... to people who kept religion within reasonable bounds and appreciated the virtues of science. Alas, it was not that way unfortunately not that way. I have come to realize that Murkans -- the dumbest of our lot -- are like Indians, only worse because they utterly lack the Indian's sense of irony in place of which they have only jingoism and hate. .