Comment by Dove

By the way, this paints a very dark picture. I keenly mourn the world I feel slipping away, but there are bright spots and people who fight the good fight, and the occasional blessed and beautiful creation and the odd victory. I don't mean to imply these things are pointless or hopeless - on the contrary. People who do that are the reason we have any good things at all. Thank you.

It is not an us vs. them sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, there are wicked people doing awful things, but I breathe the same air everyone else does. I remember building things 20 years ago with breathless excitement about how it might make the world a better place, and these days I am much quicker to think about how to monetize. Asking a fair price for something isn't evil, but none of us is an island and I don't like how my dreams have changed. I write these things in part to teach myself.