- It isn’t better; it just IS…..inasmuch as I have no control over the situation at hand and must thus play with the cards I have been dealt from this point forward. The reality of the moment—that’s all it really boils down to. There is nothing more complicated about the situation I am currently facing than that, and nothing more one really needs to know either. Nuance is a cute little game played by whiners and dreamers and lifelong politicians, but the real world—“the Big Bad Wolf”, if you will—squashes such people akin to rotten pumpkins if they refuse to step up to the plate and respond to roll call when their name is inevitably called. And it will be in time, believe me, if not sooner then later; no one is spared an accounting! So you better suck it up, grit your teeth, and prepare for that seminal day to come lest you prefer the afterlife to your current life…..
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