History’s first lesson– the ABCs– is that, unless coerced not to people kill the ones they hate History’s second lesson–

Hell is other people Purgatory is other people’s money Heaven is money

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

The last stage of wes– tern civilization was groupthink without groups

The best way to control somebody Is to divide the mind from the bod… Because the body is where the soul…

When we had bodies they called us extras which was short for extraneous though our negligible status lent a degree of latitude

Peanut butter’s not very good by itself but chocolate is Because I’m not very religious it’s important for me

In an online community You don’t have to commute But your sins will never be commut…

I didn’t know my own strength because my strength is in numbers But now I know that my greatest w… was wanting to be number one Fortunately, while it’s easy to ge…

Totalitarianism then: Nazis and the like Hunted and killed Jews Totalitarianism now: Those hunting likes

Some families hide the truth in pl… By laughing at it Although it gets confusing for a c… When the truth is a joke That can’t be told

My wife now relates to me very much as she does to stinky cheese

You don’t have to have children To help raise the children And you can have children Without working at it Raising children

In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…

Slow and steady wins the race because there isn’t any finish line