starve

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one__ clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.

When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you__l do anything to make it go away.

I__ trying to make a profit. I__ using batteries, toilet paper, and paper towels as currency. Each is something that will eventually be in short supply.___ou__e trying to get all the toilet paper in town?_ Astrid shrilled. __re you kidding?___o, Astrid, I__ not kidding,_ Albert said. __ook, right now, kids are playing with the stuff. I saw little kids throwing rolls of it around on their lawns like it was a toy. So____o your solution is to try and take it all away from people?___ou__ rather see it wasted?___eah, actually,_ Astrid huffed. __ather than you getting it all for yourself. You__e acting like a jerk.__lbert__ eyes flared. __ook, Astrid, now kids know they can buy their way into the club with it. So they__e not going to waste it anymore.___o, they__e going to give it all to you,_ she shot back. __nd what happens when they need some?___hen there will still be some left because I made it valuable.___aluable to you.___aluable to everyone, Astrid.___t__ you taking advantage of kids dumb enough not to know any better. Sam, you have to put a stop to this.__am had drifted away from the conversation, his head full of the music. He snapped back. __he__ right, Albert, this isn__ okay. You didn__ get permission____ didn__ think I needed permission to give kids what they want. I mean, I__ not threatening anyone, saying, __ive me your toilet paper, give me your batteries._ I__ just playing some music and saying, __f you want to come in and dance, then it__l cost you.____ude, I respect you being ambitious and all,_ Sam said. __ut I have to shut this down. You never got permission, even, let alone asked us if it was okay to charge people.__lbert said, __am, I respect you more than I can even say. And Astrid, you are way smarter than me. But I don__ see how you have the right to shut me down.__hat was it for Sam. __kay, I tried to be nice. But I am the mayor. I was elected, as you probably remember, since I think you voted for me.___ did. I__ do it again, man. But Sam, Astrid, you guys are wrong here. This club is about all these kids have that can get them together for a good time. They__e sitting in their homes starving and feeling sad and scared. When they__e dancing, they forget how hungry and sad they are. This is a good thing I__ doing.__am stared hard at Albert, a stare that kids in Perdido Beach took seriously. But Albert did not back down.__am, how many cantaloupes did Edilio manage to bring back with kids who were rounded up and forced to work?_ Albert asked.__ot many,_ Sam admitted.__rc picked a whole truckload of cabbage. Before the zekes figured out how to get at him. Because we paid Orc to work.___e did it because he__ the world__ youngest alcoholic and you paid him with beer,_ Astrid snapped. __ know what you want, Albert. You want to get everything for yourself and be this big, important guy. But you know what? This is a whole new world. We have a chance to make it a better world. It doesn__ have to be about some people getting over on everyone else. It can be fair to everyone.__lbert laughed. __veryone can be equally hungry. In a week or so, everyone can starve.

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.