Coded into its syntax was a declaration that what we were doing, how we were living our lives, was better than how everybody else was living theirs. We existed more fully. We saw more clearly. We breathed better air and smelled better smells. All those poor stupid people sitting in cubicles with air-conditioning and fluorescent lights—they couldn’t possibly understand. And even if they did understand, they couldn’t hack it. They weren’t tough enough to live out of their cars and sleep hanging off walls hundreds of feet in the air.
