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“Yes. America is burning, and the fire is so big that it obscures reality, so big that we all bought tickets, so big that we enjoy watching, so big that we say, “Fire is all there is, all there ever will be, and so I’ll burn too.” But could we snuff it out? Could we finally see the ashes and the truth that lies in their flakes? Would we want to see it? It doesn’t matter what we want. That’s all that’s mattered so far and look where it got us. Yes. I can pour the first bucket. No fire wants to be put out, but it doesn’t want to burn either. It’s just reacting. Everything and everyone is just reacting constantly. And now I am going act, to operate outside the fire, to be the first wave of a deluge that will end America as we know it. Good riddance.”

“You know that feeling when you suddenly realize that you are alive, that you’ve lived days without noticing that you’re alive, days without realizing that you control the most minute movements of your extremities, days without truly thinking about the impact of every little thing you do, days without living at all, days of merely existing...”