Prickly City by Scott Stantis for January 14, 2020

“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright

The triumph of marketing.

I don’t have a problem with people having more thing or better things

I do have a problem with them if they think having those things makes them better in some way

When we deluded ourselves into thinking we were the only moral leaders of the world and lived on a shining city on the hill. Around Ronald Reagan’s time.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

This toon reminded me of, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTdqh-a0tU. Rock bottom.

Oh, lets stay here a while… I’d rather ponder ageless questions than impending doom.

(The world’s largest money manager -)

BlackRock’s assets under management totaled almost $7 trillion in the third quarter of 2019.

Is that enough?

“Who is the happiest of men?”

“He who is content with least.”

Just draw a door on a wall turn around Widdershins 3 times and wait for The Marquis de Carabas

I don’t necessarily think “more than enough” is bad, considering the alternatives are “exactly enough” and “not enough” (given that “enough” is hard to define). But I’m willing to consider that “too much” is a real thing, and not a good one.

Gave it a year. Just…banal. Ta ta.