You're plastering those numbers
up on the screen again--
every night it's the same goddamn
thing, over and over--
be afraid...be very afraid....
You think you've seized upon
the only thing that matters
or should matter
at this moment in time
because it's about
survival. And yet man
does not live by survival alone.
Cave man, maybe.
But not modern
technologically advanced
and culturally refined man.
We've gone so far past
the instinct to merely survive.
We've built a world out of
inspired visions of what's possible
and learned that it's anything
and everything we can imagine!
And I can assure you
that on a personal
level it's about quality.
Not quantity.
It's not good enough
to merely survive anymore.
And all your white--knuckled
fear mongering--
your constant
sound the alarm
sound the alarm
like somebody's car being broken
into down in the alley
late at night...
Shut that goddamn thing off already!
We get it.
Because I can assure you
that on a personal level--
and I know I speak not
only for myself--there have
to be millions of a like mind
thinking this very same thing
right now...
that if this is the way
it's going to be
from this day forward...
if this is the world we're bequeathing
to our children
and grandchildren
then who needs it?
Who fucking needs it?
Really.
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