My God! I’m thinking, what incredible shit we put up with most of our lives- the domestic routine, the stupid and useless and degrading jobs, the insufferable arrogance of elected officials, the crazy cheating and slimy advertising of the businessmen, the tedious wars in which we kill our buddies instead of our real enemies back home in the capital, the foul, diseased and hideous cities and towns we live in, the constant petty tyranny of automatic washers and automobiles and TV machines and telephones-!
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| — | Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness |
