[Hounded] [by: Kevin Hearne]

Drug addicts perplex me. They’re a relatively recent development, historically speaking. Everyone has their theories—monotheists like to blame it on Godlessness—but I think it was a plague that developed in the sooty petticoats of the Industrial Revolution and its concomitant division of labor.

Once people specialized their labors and separated themselves from food production and the daily needs of basic survival, there was a hollow place in their lives that they did not know how to fill. Most people found healthy ways to fill it, with hobbies or social clubs or pseudo-sports like shuffleboard and tiddlywinks. Others didn’t.

There is still a downside to being different today, of course, which is why I put so much effort into blending in, but the downside is usually just harassment and discrimination, and that is a vast improvement over dying for the common man’s entertainment.

That’s what I hate about the Vedic concept of karma: Once somebody starts talking about it, I start noticing it.

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of mythology knows that it is suicidal to sexually harass a goddess.

Descending to the level of battle is … distasteful, especially with one’s own brother.