“Four years before Covid-19, I saw a dude get punched square in the nose over a roll of toilet paper. That's when I began to notice how self-centered people can be.”

Brian wrote this about a fight he witnessed in prison — years before pandemic panic-buying made toilet paper a national symbol of scarcity thinking. For him the incident crystallized how self-centeredness shows up first in small, absurd moments, long before it scales up into the behavior that makes headlines.