What Drugs Haven't Destroyed, The War Against

Authenticity Is An Alignment Between Your Beliefs, Your Desires And Your Choices In The World. Desires That Are In Alignment With Core Beliefs Generate Powerful Actions. Like A Wave That Draws From The Depths Of The Ocean, Actions Connected To Your Authentic Self Are More Likely To Manifest Your Intentions.

We're Now Seeing Levels Of Inequality Raise Their Heads That We Haven't Seen Since The Age Of The Robber Barons. If Somebody Watched The Deuce, And Understood The Allegory About Capital And Labor, And Understands What Happens When One Side Is Vulnerable To The Other, That Would Be Swell.

More People Pay Attention To Fiction And To Narrative Than Pay Attention To Journalism. That's Quite Sad. More People Pay Attention To Television Than To Prose. That's Equally Sad, If Not More So.

The Rest Of America, With Some Small Exceptions, Has Been Bulldozed And Rebuilt And Then Bulldozed And Rebuilt Again. Our Places Have Become Interchangeable. Here In New Orleans, Everything From The Architecture To The Way In Which People Eat, The Way In Which They Talk, The Way In Which They Do Business, The Way In Which They Dance, The Manner In Which Everything Is Set To A Parade Beat, They're All From Here. There's No Place Like It.

For A Detective Or Street Police, The Only Real Satisfaction Is The Work Itself; When A Cop Spends More And More Time Getting Aggravated With The Details, He's Finished. The Attitude Of Co-workers, The Indifference Of Superiors, The Poor Quality Of The Equipment - All Of It Pales If You Still Love The Job; All Of It Matters If You Don't.