what's clear

is that we didn't have this warm and fuzzy time together in college. so let's just say we're a group of middle-aged sorrowful people wanting to reconnect on some basis, and let's make that basis our need right now, not some fiction

Spavined

Interesting words
The high water mark
Of opportunities to use them
Has it come
If so why waste
The time to look them up.

our narcissism as a country

having do with our, in the past century, have absolutely NO frame of reference. everything we have done has been VIRGIN TERRITORY. Brand new industrial technical society. It's not like we can look back 2000 years and say yes, this was done before, and we're just peaking between troughs. But of course it HAS all been done before, essentially, it's just that on the surface, with all our jazzed up stuff, it looks different.