Rebelliousness level: Orange Alert

Just feeling particularly fed up with things at the moment, for reasons possibly to be explained later. Rather than blather, a couple quotes for consideration:

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
-- H.L. Mencken

To that I humbly add Jemison's corollary:

Sometimes the only thing keeping willful destruction of the system at bay is the knowledge that what succeeds it is likely to be even worse.

...Hey, I warned you in the post title the level was high. Aren't you conditioned by the airport recordings to understand what orange means? If not, you need more indoctrination...