Of happiness, of meaning, of grace, fulfillment. That is why those societies are far, far richer than America in all these things.
I don’t know if America will ever really change. What I do know is this. I’ve never felt more alive than when I was in Canada and Europe —

Because I wasn’t surrounded by idiots that thought guns, pecs, boobs, religion mattered more than love, truth, beauty, grace, death, time, dust, goodness.

I was freest there, to grow, to develop, mature, to love, care, know, understand, think — because they are the places that human beings built for being human.