May 22, 2005
Overheard at Starbucks
"That guy? He's never been poor but he'ld say otherwise... he's always liked expensive things. He knows value."
-"A jack daw."
"People who have expensive things are worth knowing... worth cultivating, worth imitating."
-"What's that in dollars?"
"People no-better-off than him are often a waste of his time.... those worse-off then him are human-garbage, a waste of space."
-"His God lives in a palace."
"There are no mysteries. The most important things have the biggest price tags, make the most money. It's that simple. ...there can be no other possible explanation... it's that precise."
-"If sociopaths make-up the majority of a population doesn't that make empathy and sympathy pathological?"
"Empa-paths?"
"-Yesth."