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A review by hoboken
We Learn Nothing: Essays by Tim Kreider
5.0
A small sample of the wisdom.
"It makes me proud of all of us who are secretly going to pieces behind closed doors but still somehow keeping it together for the public, collaborating in the shaky ongoing effort of not letting civilization fall apart for one more day."
"Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us."
"The left blames Corporate America for the ruinous state of the union, while the right blames the Government. Not many people on either side seem to have noticed that these alleged antagonists are literally the same people. They move from regulatory agencies to lobbying firms, Congress to corporate boards and back like Afghani warlords switching sides . . . depending on who's paying better that week."
"It turned out I'd been asking the wrong question; it was never is she a woman or is he a man but what is a friend?"
"Her only real wish throughout her transition was that others should see her as the person she felt herself to be--which wish is shared by everyone and is of course granted none of us."
"It makes me proud of all of us who are secretly going to pieces behind closed doors but still somehow keeping it together for the public, collaborating in the shaky ongoing effort of not letting civilization fall apart for one more day."
"Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us."
"The left blames Corporate America for the ruinous state of the union, while the right blames the Government. Not many people on either side seem to have noticed that these alleged antagonists are literally the same people. They move from regulatory agencies to lobbying firms, Congress to corporate boards and back like Afghani warlords switching sides . . . depending on who's paying better that week."
"It turned out I'd been asking the wrong question; it was never is she a woman or is he a man but what is a friend?"
"Her only real wish throughout her transition was that others should see her as the person she felt herself to be--which wish is shared by everyone and is of course granted none of us."