it is difficult for us to accept that we just are so we’ve evolved elaborate constructs religions governments to pledge allegiance to and deify selective servitudes to give meaning to the meaningless so we may ordain our deaths and separate ourselves from the beasts all around us all the while we exhibit the same kindnesses and brutalities of all creatures killing to survive protect territory and as a symptom of our insanities we become indentured servants contracted to work a lifetime in exchange for free passage to some purpose for being
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