We are not aware of why we think and feel the way we do. And this makes us easy prey for those who want to manipulate us. To strengthen your mind, and to slap some hardwood into your backbone, question everything. For instance, for about a decade or so, the media has taken to calling every death a tragedy. Considering that death is the Exit Door for the human race and everything else that lives, it is only a rare and startling death that can be called a tragedy.
Death is merely a fact of life, one coin, two sides.
When some X-spurt claims that one out of four women are raped, don t just believe him. Ask lots of women you know, and see what they say. Women who have really been raped in any of its ugly or brutal forms won t much like to talk about it. Rape is another word that has been cheapened out of its horrible but very real meaning. I ve asked awkward questions all my life, and I intend to keep on it until I actually scare up that firing squad.