If we’re to believe the internet a hero’s journey consists of a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis… and comes home changed or transfor…

Denial leaves a vacuum that is ever filled by wishful thinking

What is the internet? It’s not a thing in space and time It’s a nothing in timeless cybersp… You could represent it with– “The symbol zero denoting the abse…

When the highly educated play dumb and you are dragooned into spelling it out for them know that their obtuse dissembling bespeaks regression to the oral st…

In my experience it’s not necessarily true that one plus one must equal two The sum is nearly always

There is only one way to claim moral authority: Convincing others that they are the authority in their own life And based on exhaustive research

Whenever an authority figure says It’s my way or the highway I end up wanting to have it both w…

Our central moral sentiment– that doing the right thing is its… hasn’t done us much good because through it we live in deni… that in this world

There’s always an excuse So, there’s never an excuse For running out of excuses

When I ask What’s wrong? It’s always short for What’s wrong with me?

Self-flattery will get you everywhere but there’s nowhere left to go

Tom Brady keeps a portrait of him… that is becoming progressively more likable

A man starts out lying for instant gratification Inevitably, this progresses to buy… his unending rationalizations

The pandemic lockdowns were the pa… and penultimate nonevent because o… limits of human imagination– We could only imagine shutting everything down

Paradoxically To approach perfection You need to make Really big mistakes Ironically