 
- Socialism
- 1.
emotional vampirism elevated to the level of state doctrine.
- 2.
a form of government based on the collective ownership of goods; e.g., the student council when your mother was “treasurer.”
- bus-stop
-
a street corner designed for the lower-class to absorb mockery and contempt from the upper-class; a spiritual whipping post.
- frustration
- 1.
livelihood; awareness; being in possession of one’s faculties.
- 2.
the early stages of success in business; a middle rung on the ladder to freedom, where freedom is defined by moderate financial security and a handball sized chunk of prostate cancer; a good start.
- adage
-
the truth dilapidated.
compare with axiom.
- progress
-
sustained betterment; improved development over time; e.g., “There was a time in the United States when merely being a black man in the wrong place could get you killed, while today a white man in the wrong place can be killed, now that’s progress.”
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