Instead I shot back with a very reflexive, "Bullshit!" There are very few things that trigger me more than consigning 90% of humanity to that of herbivores orders of magnitude more stupid than my goats.

In that frustration I coined the phrase, "comfortable wolves." Sometimes you just have what alcoholics call "a moment of clarity."

In most situations, public conversations reveal the truth of who we are. Twitter is a one of the best mirrors of our true personality and state of mind than anything else devised yet, in my opinion. There is such a low barrier to contracting 'foot-in-mouth disease' that we all pass it around like 1st graders while generally acting like them in public.

This exchange revealed one person's nihilism and condescension as defense mechanism while it revealed my stubbornness in believing we're not all just quadriplegics in canoes headed for Niagara Falls.

This was an idea that quickly set my little corner of Twitter on fire, with two camps emerging quickly. You never know what is going to capture people's imagination when you do this stuff for a living. But it seemed at the time that people were waiting for someone to stand up to the bullies doomporning it up all over social media and give them a little credit.

I still don't think this idea is that far out there. Honestly, the more I think about it the more it should inspire people to action. You're not a bad person, stupid or apathetic, you're comfortable. You know it. I know it. I know what I am.

I've never agreed with Janis Joplin that "freedom is just another word for 'nothing left to lose,'" but I empathize with the sentiment.