The absurdity and obscenity of our daily lives are completely lost on pretty much everyone.

Better be careful. Once your eyes become opened to the absurdity and obscenity of it all, your perspective turns you into an outcast.

I cast myself out of the mainstream fairly forcefully long, long ago. One of the joys of a forum like this is bumping into others who have some glimmering of the insanity we live every day.