twenty-eight years and a million words
Amazingly, I got laid off, today. They gave me six weeks' notice, though, so I'm in no position to complain. They're restructuring, following some tough sales lessons, it seems.
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009