We hit it off: she’d declawed her cats and I’d plucked my cacti’s needles
An ideology will fail when followers are asked to believ… despite the fact that it isn’t tru… but will succeed as soon as those followers believe
As users of language we give off meaning the same way that plants as users of sunlight give off oxygen
The biggest change in my lifetime Has been the change in the meaning… They don’t have a prayer It used to mean They don’t have a chance
Acting locally solved climate change but now instead of a life or death situati… which at least had a degree of rom…
The Imaginary: I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it The Symbolic:
The ugly duckling Is not a duck But he is a lucky duck
It’s not a wine and cheese crowd unless everyone there hates crowds
Once the cost of AI turns negligi… the world to come becomes inexorab… and as conditions grow unintelligi… just know that you and I are repli… into beings who are far more execu…
When the doyennes of progressive a… “From the river to the sea is an a… human rights, and peaceful coexist… Bernard-Henri Levy helpfully tran… “‘From the river to the sea’, whic…
Jews learned the hard way That because God sanctions God also sanctions– In this lies their certainty about… Most other nations just know
It is said that It is impossible to define God But this is just because Real power is the opposite of obsc… Nobody knows it when they see it
Everyone wants to live forever because fear is self-perpetuating No one wants to overcome the fear… because courage is selfless
It’s the odd couple that isn’t always trying to even the score
Think about how much control they… with a made up version of eternal damnation Then consider how much freedom you’ll be left with
