In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…
Yes, humans suck– that’s a universal The reason we haven’t been able to fix it is that being a human doesn’t suck for eve…
In the latest version of Captain… Captain America’s archenemy is Captain Obvious for all the obvious reasons
The people will never accept the f… that the one thing missing from an effective conspiracy is conspir… so they keep looking for the inexi… always expecting to find them
In wristwatch advertisements the doomsday clock is always set to ten past ten
We believe that God is being because it’s our only way to access God as meaning
When I was a kid people grew on me like grass Now they’re more like sod
Faced with a forced choice The agnostic feigns ignorance For if you ask a woman to marry yo… And she says I don’t know
The bad news is that liberal societies can only cohere in the face of external enemies The good news is that we will never lack for
I thought I’d flown the co-op by living off the grid And yet I’m still a chicken only now I’m on the skids So I’ve up and joined a commune
The ill-informed Regret to inform you That knowledge is dour But groupthink is power
The last thing Tony Robbins ever… You’re rather sanguine for somebod… he’s an incurable Pollyanna
There was a time when fools managed perceptions in order to manage reality, realists managed perceptions because they couldn’t manage reali…
One would think the earth is flat “Unless” as the Coen brothers put it “round is funny”
Time tells a story and linear time is a plot device we’ve made up, call it a time machine, to advance the plot