Truth salted and sweetened, of course, with the arrogance of youth. That is to say, all our ideas about the world made absolutely delicious by what we were certain no one before us had ever known or understood—not the way we did: mendacity, greed, hypocrisy, the corporate world’s hunger for profit, the political world’s hunger for power, the prevalence of evil intent, even among the people we knew, the people we loved.
Truth salted and sweetened, of course, with the arrogance of youth. That is to say, all our ideas about the world made absolutely delicious by what we were certain no one before us had ever known or understood—not the way we did: mendacity, greed, hypocrisy, the corporate world’s hunger for profit, the political world’s hunger for power, the prevalence of evil intent, even among the people we knew, the people we loved.

