yeah, the world is in a HOT mess --otherwise known as "perils of the Enlightenment" :) I have a MEMORABLE QUOTE for our predicament from The Departed (2006), itself whatcha might call an IPR caper in Hong Kong (Internal Affairs, 2002).

And I think, if I was Sigmund fucking Freud, I wouldn't get an answer. So tell me. What's a lace curtain motherfucker like you doing in the Staties?

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