KOSIKK + Margari’s Kid + VACANT (Kyama Edit) + Dashevsky.

There wasn’t even resignation on my part, only disgust, a disgust that this had happened to me, and a disgust with the doctors who couldn’t do anything about it. They were helpless and I was helpless, the only difference being that I was the victim.

C.B.

What do I think is important? Good wine, good plumbing and to be able to sleep late in the mornings.

C.B.

Alexander Kaunas, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Not only do fossil fuel companies receive $775 billion to $1 trillion in annual global subsidies, but they pay nothing for the privilege of treating our shared atmosphere as a free waste dump—a fact that has been described by the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change as “the greatest market failure the world has ever seen.

N.K.

Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government’.

L.B.

James Gilleard, London, United Kingdom.

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.

They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world.

J.B.

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