"The man in the street, with his lust for power and prestige thwarted by his own limitations and the necessities of social life, projects his ego upon his nation and indulges his anarchic lusts vicariously."
— So I started reading a Political Philosophy analysis book by Henry Waltz called “Man, the state, and war”. This quote is from Reinhold Niebuhr, who I hadn’t heard of before. This reminds me of life in New York City.