In the cold war the gravest danger was recklessnes… which we solved with Mutually Assured Destruction The culture war
Apocalypse now in the eternal now
Brexit is a fantasy that a people who previously sat astride a global empire can now sit apart from globalizati… when in reality
If the world exists on a continuum between utopia and dystopia but instead of polar opposites utopia and dystopia are both hell then at the exact midpoint
We used to have the haves and the have nots But then the haves were further subdivided into the haves and the have to
The distance between zero and one is infinitely greater than the distance between one and infinity
Haunted by conflicted feelings in… my therapist and I finally traced… when I preferred Pepsi to Coke and McDonald’s to Burger King but B.K. served Pepsi
In order to live I can’t die (but you can) In order to live and let live I must (eventually) die
There are no atheists in foxholes; the world is a foxhole
The only way to avoid giving the man who has everything more of the same is to give him nothing
The pursuit of fame is the human equivalent of a dog chasing its own tail
After the sexual revolution men thought they could finally get what they want AND what they… while women believed they could at… get what they need AND what they…
Nietzsche, who famously never marr… described marriage as a long conve… Had he wed he would have realized it’s actual… a series of brief interrogations
If it can’t be fixed but it must be fixed it stands to reason that you should keep trying the easy fix
The Kantian ethic of treating oth… never really took off largely because Immanuel overlooke… rather obvious catchy slogan: Love squanders all