The Books - "A Cold Freezin' Night"

"Culture, I would argue, is the most widespread addiction in the history of nature. The avocado is, at its core, a smooth-skinned fruit. The bumps that you see on most avocados are in fact a disease that nearly every avocado is "born" with. The way some babies can be born addicted to heroin, it is my opinion that most babies are born addicted to culture. They are so primed and ready, immersed and tuned to swallow language and property and class and conflict, that it is almost instantaneous that you can see the mind of a child stretching and twisting their newfound set of expectations in their mind, and they invariably pass through the cruelty phase. This period of 5 or so years where they gnaw on their biases, and literally try to break open their most precious gift of "a place in the world", is my proof for the weight under which we live our lives. Think of a world truly given over to children, culture would be annihilated in under a year, whether through instant societal decay (the money crash, the trade drought, the end of electricity) or some kind of nuclear suicide."
-Prof. Desmond Velting, lived 19 years in a Skinner Box