What do you make of this quote by
Charles Bukowski, “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, L.A. Free Press, 4/20/73:
“The war is everywhere and the little man will never be let go of. He will be squeezed and taxed and tricked and percentage-wised out of a chance. And he’ll scream and drink green beer, he’ll lose everything, and on the way out he’ll say, “Well, hell, I lost but I had a good time.” What he means is that he didn’t have the imagination to know what to do with his time or his money so he moved it over to somebody else who solved that problem. What he means by a good time is that he didn’t have to be inventive and he just slid down the slide. And Monday morning the time clock will be there and somebody else will arrange things for him to do.”