How fucking lucky are we to have such an amazing group of people involved in this universe.
I have never seen anything like this. All of them saying goodbye to something we all love.
Destiny is special and incredible. And it was made by some special and incredible people.
Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.
We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.
And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.
Seeing a clear divide between Americans and British on this matter.
The majority of British, me included, feel that they "bought and paid for a ticket, which included the wine, nobody died, stiff upper lip, waste not want not, anyone want to swap bubbley for the red?"
And the Americans that feel that nicking a few bottles of vino is more of a crime than the assassination attempt.
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