1

The World is an intrinsically screwed up place. You should not be dismayed by this.

 2

You are either in or out, so you might as well assume you are in.

 3

Your individual merit has nothing to do with being in, so don't get all smug about it.

 4

Purity is a contemptible self-delusion. Anything worth doing is messy.

 5

You are always already plugged in. It is not only possible but imperative to critique things with which you are (inevitably) complicitous.

 6

Perversity is fun, and generally more honest than its sanctimonious alternatives.