I’ve enjoyed quite a few works from the poet whose work appears at left, but this one speaks to me most clearly.

Money means everything, and the value we put on the lives of our children pale in comparison.

America Is a Gun

Schopenhauer’s pessimism is essentially everything he left us, and his quote here is representative of that.

We can’t change our birthplace, but does anyone want to do that anyway?  We can change anything else about us that we choose, and we certainly don’t spend the rest of our lives defending anything.

Bizarre Moments in Western Philosophy

The meme here covers yet another horrible feature of life in today’s America, i.e., all of a sudden we hate our jobs.

I’ll admit that I was lucky enough to find work that was lucrative and rewarding (most of the time), but I don’t recall my employees hating coming into the office every morning. I had clients that were mainly mid-level corporate executives in Fortune 100 firms, and they didn’t strike me as unhappy either.

I’m wondering if this isn’t the product of social media, where most of what gets shared is misery.

And Just Like That, Everybody Hates Their Job