Obsession

Obsession is oppression. 

Consequences

Unintentional consequences are a the result of conflicted priorities. What is it that you want most?

Leverage

Leverage is a force multiplier.

Soothing

Lies are soothing to cowards.

Imcompetent?

Corruption and incompetence may straddle a fine line: "Which are you, incompetent or just corrupt?"

(And yes, C., the misspelling was on purpose.)

Murder

Murder doesn't care what you name it.

Nothing

Nothingnees is not an empty construct--it just looks that way.

Melancholia

Melancholia is the brain's way of saying things are not so great.

Trust

Trust is the glue that binds a society, but can be also hinder or even stop its development if misplaced.

Conformity

A nonconformist will often find realization of nonconformist desires by forcing others to conform.  Thus do rebels become dictators.

Images

An images may comprise/contain multiple symbols, thus making it something different than the sum of its parts.  Relationships are cause and effect.

Sand

Consciousness is more than just a heap of sand.

One Learns Nothing

One learns nothing by digesting prepackaged data, but the prevalent anti-intellectualism masquerades stagnation as some sort of paradigm shift.  Commercial interests push this mental model as a means to keep consumers passive within a technological bubble.  This bubble, when it does break, will be orders of magnitude worse than simple economic meltdowns as it will be more than a disruption—it will destroy any remaining goodwill toward centralized systems.

Shopping

To suggest we go shopping in response to a national crisis inspires nothing. This nothingness allows societal apathy a foothold. Culture stagnates. The end result is decadence unto civilizational nihilism.

Risk

Risk can always be an opportunity for a sociopath.

Thought

Thought is not necessarily thinking.

Final Solutions

Final solutions are for failures.

'Drain Bamage'

Rarefied air causes brain damage.

Narcissists

Sentiment may regard the removal of the human animal from nature as a positive development. Narcissists are always sentimental.

Maybe?

If alienation is a normal response to civilization and society, is it still alienation?