I don’t have any delusions of grandeur; I have delusions of posthumous grandeur that would retroactively nullify
I used to think the way it works i… if it’s true then you believe it Later, I thought if you believe it
The true test of power today is whether or not you can be forced to accept a forced apology
The metaverse only took off once people realized that the only way to accrue status ther… was through displays of a toleranc…
I always liked making people laugh until my undergraduates told me that it was an abuse of power asym…
The Kantian ethic of treating oth… never really took off largely because Immanuel overlooke… rather obvious catchy slogan: Love squanders all
The less you need to control the more powerful you
You have a real life if there are no easy solutions You have a real problem if there are no easy solutions but there is an easy way out
Rule #1- Where God says no, the devil says… And where the devil says no, God… Rule #2- If everybody knows the answers ahe…
Our first category mistake was believing that the Real has me… when the Real is absolutely meanin… only the Symbolic has any meaning This evolved into our second categ…
Instead of the invisible hand bending self-interest towards the collective good we got the risible glad-hand laughing our selfishness off
Modern research methods have detec… that there’s no such thing as a ba… leaving scientists puzzled as to w… the whole bunch is still spoiled
My dad was a very religious man He always told me You’ve made your bed now you’ve got to not eat in it
Heart cancer is vanishingly rare because a heart of gold only spreads love, not gold while a mind of gold inevitably spreads all the way
It’s because certain questions will get you killed that certain other questions are also answers
