Children arrive in this world unthinking and empty-headed, like idiots. We have to teach them how to be smart and knowledgeable thinkers like us.A small child can run around and play happily with a stick or a leaf, because children are stupid and they don't
Individualism could theoretically work as a political system, in a hypothetical world where nobody is ever helpless and the planet has infinite resources and the ecosystem is infinitely robust. But we do not live in such a world.No, we live in a world where every
There's a meme going around on Twitter again called "The Movie Villain/The Actual Villain", where people post an image of someone in a movie or a show and then an image of who they think the real bad guy is. Some are getting creative with
The struggle of humankind is a struggle to become more conscious. This is true whether you're talking about humanity as a species, human society as an individual nation or community, the interpersonal relationships in a specific family or social structure, or the inner processes of
An assertion made by spooks is as far from evidence as you can possibly get. Really dumb that this needs to be said.~Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news.~The most influential news
All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and
"If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth."~ Julian Assange"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be."~ P C HodgellHuman life is confusing. A human's purpose in life is to make it less so.The healthiest desire a
"As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn't quite articulate it, except with the words: if only I was here. This little beachside cafe was so exquisite she longed to really
I wouldn't invest any emotional energy in the hope that things will eventually return to normal. They won't. The good news is that what we think of as "normal" is actually as crazy as a species could possibly be, and we may in fact be
Everything keeps accelerating.That seems to be the trend here currently. Things don't appear to necessarily be getting better or worse at this point in time, they're just accelerating.It's all moving faster and faster. Major news events are getting closer and closer together, people are becoming