“I know it doesn't feel like this all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we spend our resources on. We choose what, or ideally whom, to lust after. We choose what to watch, what to like, what to build, how to spend, the breaths we've been allotted; and the fact that many of our choices are unconscious (get that handbag, get that Starbucks, look at that Snookie), does not in any way make us less responsible for those choices. I'm happiest when I feel like I'm part of a community that helps me choose more intelligently and with greater empathy.”
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