Places That Feel Like A Trap

Accrete

Accumulate

Accumulate Quietly

Accumulate Risk

Accumulate Weight

Accuse The Present

Add Up

Amplify Consequences

Are Easier To Enter Than Leave

Are Mostly Relationship

Become Dangerous Through Waiting

Become Heavier Over Time

Become Lighter Over Time

Become Somebody’s Problem

Become Somebody’s Responsibility

Become Someone Else’s Problem

Begin As Solutions

Brighten Then Dull

Cannot Be Owned

Catch Up With You

Change Hands

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Chase You

Collect Around A Person

Compound

Consume Leverage

Corner You Politely

Cost More Than Planned

Create Commitment

Create Dependence

Create Drag

Create Fragility

Create Obligation

Demand Attention Eventually

Divide The Room

Exist Between People

Exist Mostly In Consequence

Exist Mostly In Their Consequences

Exist To Be Emptied

Feel Like A Relief

Feel Like A Trap

Feel Overtime

Feel Underdressed

Feel Underseen

Feel Weatherless

Fold Into The Background

Follow You

Get Louder When Ignored

Get Out Of Hand

Glitter Without Warming

Grow In The Dark

Grow Quietly

Grow While Standing Still

Harden Reality

Haunt You

Have Long Memories

Keep Piling Up

Keep The Secret Too Well

Make Consequences Visible

Need Forgiveness

Only Exist Because We Agreed

Pile On

Pretend To Be Temporary

Punish Delay

Punish Inattention

Punish Temptation

Put A Price On Everything

Quietly Accuse

Quietly Destroy Opportunity

Quietly Expand

Quietly Judge

Quietly Multiply

Quietly Punish

Reduce Optionality

Reject You Softly

Remember For Too Long

Remember More Than They Should

Remember Pressure

Resist Passage

Return

Run In The Family

Settle

Sit Heavy

Snowball

Spend The Future

Spiral Out Of Control

Stain Your Record

Tally In The Dark

Transfer Responsibility

Transfer Value

Weigh Like Ash

Weigh Like Chlorine

Weigh Like Copper

Weigh Like Dust

Weigh Like Echo

Weigh Like Glass

Weigh Like Glue

Weigh Like Iron

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is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite. Joseph B. Wirthlin

is a promise perverted through mathematics and violence.

Debt is the perversion of a promise, a promise that has been perverted through mathematics and violence

is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam Chomsky

is, in Japan, such that the passivity of a street crowd after an accident is not just lack of initiative. It is a recognition that any nonofficial interference would make the recipient carry a debt.

They would prefer to avoid getting entangled in all the consequences of on. The passivity of a street crowd in Japan when an accident occurs is not just lack of initiative. It is a recognition that any nonofficial interference would make the recipient wear an 'on' (Benedict 1946:104).

is, in Japan, unpayable to the emperor. It is higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea.

No one can ever fully repay the debt. It is, as one Japanese phrase puts it, higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea' (Plath after 76)

is, in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

is like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make

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