“I think in this country the hope of any real fundamental changes in the way the structures of power in society work aren’t ever going to happen because it’s just too easy to get numbed out on stuff. Too easy to get blissed out on stuff. Pain isn’t tolerated in this society. I think that kind of pain is allied with principles that bring about change. I myself eat a lot of chocolate, but there’s not enough chocolate in the world to numb out what I’m going through. Hershey’s should come out with some opiated chocolate bars, that would help the masses.”
“Do you want to share what you’re going through?”
“The specifics you mean?”
“If you want.”
“A lot of things, mostly things that people don’t wanna believe. Even your friends don’t believe. If you were to believe it would make you question how things work and what’s real and legitimate in the world. No one wants to acknowledge what’s really going on. Things have to get almost unbearably bad before people overcome their ability to deny things.”