How can people be so different?
Look at nature: there are no contentious factions in an ant colony or segregated groups of salmon.  Ever met a racist leopard?
Diversity is cause for celebration, not fuel for divisive conflict.
How can people contend with an uncertain future when they are so firmly rooted in the past?

Recipe for Widely Palatable Modern Man:

1 part coffee, store bought.
5 hours of sleep
3 hours of television (preferably sitcoms)
1 mortgage
50 hours of unfulfilling work
1 hour of leisure
1 nagging spouse
3 angry bosses
2 types of medication (for the heart or mind, a poorly crafted multivitamin, or others depending on your taste)

Take the ingredients, mix thoroughly until all parts [...]

What am I to explore?
No stone unturned, to my frustration.
Who am I to adore?
An open eye displays abomination.
So I sit and I dream of a life filled with green and crimson and blue. There’s no me and no you, only two of a kind quite unsure how to find their way back.
What am I [...]

Sunlight. The sun comes up around 5:30 am on a summer morning, and I see every second. It rises in the sky like a huge orange ball. Whenever I try to watch it, though, my eyes hurt. My Mom says not to look right at it, or I’ll hurt my eyes. [...]

Saltine dreams
Bird flu fills tomorrow
But my stomach will hurt regardless
No food
No money
Television national interview sorrow
Are you listening?
Am I?
Or is this just a rerun?
No sleep
Daydreaming
Drink until tomorrow

Is there anything so oppressive as expectation? Fuck. I don’t think so.
I remember when the world was my oyster. My fucking oyster. A shellfish waiting to be pried open, filled with goods for me. And there was no hurry for anything to happen. The oyster wasn’t going anywhere. [...]