You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

by Jeffrey Cranor

How many times can you filter a memory before it’s really just a fiction? How can you tell how many times your memories have been filtered?

I mean simply that sometimes, for some people, the amount of labor it takes to accrue the supplies you need to live through a day outweighs the value of the day

god had forsaken me for lesser sins.

Conspiracy theories are like micro–religious beliefs to help us find comfort in the unknown. Whether we’re looking for the supernatural, or the organized, or the extraterrestrial, they’re a way of avoiding more banal truths.