Of Course, I Accept As A Natural-born Criminal, Habitual Liar, Fraudster, And Totally Untrustworthy Perverted

“‘Of course, I accept as a natural-born criminal, habitual liar, fraudster, and totally untrustworthy perverted genius.’

‘Capital! Welcome to Government Service!’”

-Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal

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“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“They weren’t that important. They were merely at the top. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it’s still possible to get things done.”

-Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods

Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012