One of the things I'm getting really /tired/ of is how everything has to be viewed through the lens of politics, and things are given value only on their utility to a given value system.  Something cannot simply be virtuous or vice.  It has to to be a political tool.  Sometimes the anti-capitalism stuff reads in the Network timeline some parallel universe McCarthyism.  It's just as ill-informed and just as tribalistically inane.  We crave for some external influence that holds us down and is responsible for all of our problems.  At the end of the day, adversity is a circumstance, but suffering is a choice.  And a lot of people choose to suffer, because they wish to be seen as some sort of martyr.  It is the ultimate display of selfish and narcissitic ego, whatever good intentions it may cloak itself with.