my dinner with Andre
"Okay, yes, we're bored We're all bored now. But does it ever occur to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredum we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money, and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks, and that it's not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and that somebody's who's asleep will not say no." "I think New York is the new model for the new conscentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride, in this thing they've built, they've built their own prison. And so they exist in a state of schitzophrenia, where they are both guard and prisoner, and, as a result, they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison. Then he went into his pocket and he took out a seed for a tree, and he said, 'This is a pine tree.' He put it in my hand and he said, 'Escape before it's too late.'"