The Driftwood Paper

20 year old freeloader with no money or prospects. Reading/watching the news has become a favorite hobby of mine these last few years. Constantly living in "unprecedented times" has inspired in me a desire to learn exactly what that means, to look back on our history and see just how much "precedent" there really is for our darkest modern day moments.

It is this desire that drives me to scour major news outlets when a story breaks to compare, contrast, and make a record of bias. Facts have no bias, and it is every citizen of the world's responsability to do their own research to identify the lies and the liars.

I've spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America. There are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by, and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good. Nothing nauseates me more than preaching to the converted. The self-congratulatory tone of the privileged left—just repeating and repeating and repeating the outrages of the opposition—this does not win hearts and minds. It doesn't change anyone's opinions. It only solidifies them, and makes things worse for all of us. We should be breaking bread with each other, and finding common ground whenever possible. I fear that is not at all what we've done.

--Anthony Bourdain

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Chapter 10, spoken by "The Creature"

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