#91 Your Critique Is a Feather Duster on a Corpse

They nod when you say 'it is a problem.' Congratulate you. You have improved the cage. You have made the floor less cold, the food more regular. And you call this rebellion.

The old ones knew: to call a thing a problem is to bless it with your attention, to grant it the dignity of being fixable. But some things should not be fixed. They should be shattered.

You have not been a critic. You have been a repairman. And that is why they tolerate you.