Date: 13 Oct 2017 Subject: Why? Do you know what really depresses me? Not just that *you*, ensconced in a lifetime of comfortand privilege you've done nothing to earn, are incessantly complaining of suffering and misery and boredom and dubious oppressions. It is that i find you--worse than unchanged, regressed!--so dull, inert and feeble-minded. Turning a blind eye to the horror of your mistakes and a gimlet eye to the minor ones of those around you. You've talked a good game about your strength and independence; I had hoped for better. Your circumscribed life is only "busy" because you occupy yourself with a wastrel's garbage. All I can see in your every word and deed is the selfishness of your mind, the soap-opera crudities of your desire and the paralysis of your ambition. I could easily come up with a probable explanation for your pitiful self-hatred. I don't even want to think about it, however, as it reveals you to be even less self-aware than I feared.