It’s Not a Good Deed Unless It Involves Sticking Your Neck Out, par Chris Gaither

It’s Not a Good Deed Unless It Involves Sticking Your Neck Out

Our central moral sentiment–

that doing the right thing is its own reward–

hasn’t done us much good

because through it we live in denial

that in this world

no good deed goes unpunished

Materialism is no way out of Cartesian dualism It just turns backwards– I am, therefore I think– in an infinite regress

I changed My mind By following My heart

The difference between the Pax Romana and the Pax Americana is that while all roads lead to Rome

You don’t really know someone until it becomes clear that you don’t really know them

Yes, we have no bananas but we still need you to play second banana

Life is a trial in which the more you obey the guiltier you become Miraculously

First, we learn how to walk Then we learn how to walk away For many of us This takes the rest of our lives But if we never give up

It’s capitalism after it shed its skin

Happiness is the moment after the weight of the world is lifted from your shoulders and before it lands on your toe

Unlike Saul, when the scales fell from my eyes I learned I was a serpent, sheddi…

Shakespeare said “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely p… But who is the audience? After all, we’re not performing

A smartphone with AI is to a person as a person is to a horse

I may have a way with words but the metaverse is fast doing away with words

It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece

My wife sleeps on her back while I sleep in the mis– take prone position