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You can either try to change the world or you can try to change yourself. They work in opposite directions.

What use the constant, bitter, conceptual critiques of our society, economy, polity...to rail against the dying of the sun? The state engendered by these preoccupations is itself deadly. I am in this field of confusion, where ignorant armies clash by night. My task is to save myself and those I love who are willing to come with me. This task requires self knowledge, a keen wit and the ability to suffer without complaint. There is no point in wishing the world were different. No point in noting its deviltry...unless it is to use this knowledge to help save my little band of fellow refugees as we cross the waterless desert.

What does it mean to save myself? It means to retain my humaness, compassion, sense of humor, friendship with God.

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