The ego is a helicopter equipped to safeguard belonging deter conflict and elevate status

I don’t care about birds but I thrill when the squirrels can’t get to the birdseed

Because we know we must die and that survival depends on belonging we all live in fear

When the devil seduces a people pl… He always begins by saying Make yourself comfortable Because he knows That in order to make themselves c…

Domination is feudal But resistance seems futile And lo, we canoodle With the large standard poodle We all know as boodle

Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble

We are hard wired for cooperation to better compete Marxism fails because it enacts a competition

People who enter a plea of I’m sorry if you were offended are bargaining for a sentence of time served reckoning they’ll have got off sco…

All fiction Is serious fiction Because all fiction Is life and death Everything on the internet

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

You can never be happy with what you have; on– ly with what you lack

It’s still wise not to panic but now it’s because you need to keep your powder dry for a moral panic

We can’t fool God But we can fool ourselves into thi… We fooled God The surest way to do so Is to fool ourselves into thinking

It’s a truism that life is a roller coaster ride But it’s also true that unlike a roller coaster things get even more interesting

The tough part about loving someon… is that connection supports autono… It’s tough to love someone enough to grant them their freedom and you can only do so