Rick Wilson

Nice halo, what?

I was born and raised just outside of Philadelphia. I attended Marple-Newtown High School, Muhlenberg College, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and then a splendid residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center. I entered dental practice and started gleaning lessons from many people, including numerous and diverse patients over the years. At the same time, I marveled at the power governments, corporations and the media have over our lives, and at the way they shape our world. I wondered--are we powerless in the face of humanity's great creations? Are we at their mercy? And an even more important question arose--is it morally defensible to treat human beings as interchangeable, anonymous, disposable cogs in an industrial, government or military machine?

And then one day, all the things I had learned led me to a powerful conclusion:

"A human being is never a commodity. Not for any reason, not under any circumstances."

And then I started writing.

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Here is where The Man Who Wore Mismatched Socks lives online, including Gackground, images, and at least one short story set in the Gackiverse:

https://sites.google.com/site/tmwwmms/