It’s one of those days I feel out of words. I’m not sure if I should write with empathy or disdain. Empathy for the individual who makes the wrong decisions in the hope his life might improve. Disdain for a society that appears to have no swarm intelligence whatsoever. And then I stumbled across an article by The Millions on just that topic. Turns out, a writer needs both.

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