Things Could Be Worse And Things Could

We Loved Killing Time And Had Perfected Several Ways Of Doing So. We Wandered The Hallways Carrying Papers That Indicated Some Mission Of Business When In Reality We Were In Search Of Free Candy.

Between The Time I First Started Working In Advertising In 1998 And Now, The Word Brand Has Replaced Identity. We Are No Longer Individuals So Much As We Are Brands. We're Individual Brands. Individuals Are Basically Left To Define Their Individuality By Staying Off The Internet, Which In And Of Itself Can Be A Brand, The Opting-out Brand.

Everyone Desires Relationships And Community. Most People Want To Belong To A Cohesive, Like-minded Group. It Staves Off Loneliness. It Promotes Identity. These Are Natural And Very Human Instincts.

We Found Ourselves Wanting To Hurry Time Along, Which Was Not In The Long Run Good For Our Health. Everybody Was Trapped In This Contradiction But Nobody Ever Dared To Articulate It.

We Had The Great Good Fortune And Shortcomings Of Character That Marked Every Generation That Had Never Seen War.