Cognitive Dissonance is the New Vibe.

All the areas look gray and the light keeps changing.

Consider a noun. Any noun: proper, improper, perverse, obscene, divine.

That word represents something awful and wonderful and hideous and beautiful all at once. We have to treasure all the stuff that has suck embedded in it, or we’ll turn into husks of misery and seething rage.

Treasure and trash are interchangeable descriptions for most everything.

Bargains are functions of tragedy.

We are all cogs in the Orphan Crushing Machine.

Feed a person (or a dream, or a machine) for a day and it’ll need even more from you tomorrow.

Pretending things are great is not a long-term coping mechanism, but it’ll keep this meeting on schedule.

People are always gonna be people, no matter the app they’re on.

The Orphan Crushing Machine pays for somebody’s nurse.

The gas your grandparents burned on their honeymoon roadtrip is still lurking in the atmosphere, keeping us cozy.

The dose makes the poison and we are all so very bad at math and measurements.

And this too, shall pass. All of it.

All of which is to say, “Yes, and?” is the closest idea to a functional mental navigation system that I’ve found so far. Every coin has a thousand sides.