“Once politics becomes your ethnic or moral identity, it becomes impossible to compromise, because compromise becomes dishonor. Once politics becomes your identity, then every electoral contest is a struggle for existential survival, and everything is permitted.”—David Brooks
Read MoreTwitter teaches us that you shouldn’t focus on any one thing for long. The world can and should be understood in short, simple statements of 280 characters.
Read More“The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable—until it changes, and then we realize it didn’t have to be like that in the first place.”—Johann Hari
Read More“All children—indeed, all people—given Ritalin focus and pay attention better for a while. The fact the drug works isn’t evidence that you had an underlying biological problem all along—it’s just proof that you are taking a stimulant.”—Johann Hari
Read More“It’s not a flaw in them that causes children to struggle to pay attention. It’s a flaw in the world we built for them.”—Johann Hari
Read More“Wokeness and capitalism simply tolerate each other because each feels it can use the other.”—Vivek Ramaswamy
Read More“Stakeholder capitalism gives us the worst of both worlds: woke capitalists in America get to make money with their dictator buddies abroad and act like they’re saving the world back home.”—Vivek Ramaswamy
Read MoreIt was a beautiful ceremony but a terrible reception. And I was stuck at the worst table in the room, sitting across from the worst couple in the world.
Read MoreCivilization is upheld by those who embrace an ethic of care and repair. It is upheld by those who take responsibility for the world around them and give far more than they take. Let’s endeavour to join their ranks in 2022.
Read More“The really insidious element of Rousseau’s legacy is not so much the idea of the ‘noble savage’ as that of the ‘stupid savage’.”—David Graeber & David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (2021)
Read More“For most of our evolutionary history, we did indeed live in Africa—but not just the eastern savannahs, as previously thought: our biological ancestors were distributed everywhere from Morocco to the Cape. Some of those populations remained isolated from each another for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years, cut off from their nearest relatives by deserts and rainforests. Strong regional traits developed. The result probably would have struck a modern observer as something more akin to a world inhabited by hobbits, giants and elves than anything we have direct experience of today, or in the more recent past.”
Read More“Anyone who was still living mainly by hunting animals and gathering wild foodstuffs in the early to mid twentieth century was almost certainly living on land no one else particularly wanted.”
Read More“Don’t take it personal, they said; but I did, I took it all quite personal.”
Read More“Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are looking for.”—Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot (2021)
Read More“The happiest countries were the usual suspects—Norway, Australia, Canada, and so on. They are wealthy, secure, peaceful, with good social support. This survey, like the others, found that life satisfaction is strongly correlated with GDP per capita.”—Paul Bloom
Read More“When it comes to experienced happiness, more money makes you happier.”—Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning (2021)
Read More“With the rise of Third Wave Antiracism we are witnessing the birth of a new religion, just as Romans witnessed the birth of Christianity.”—John McWhorter
Read More“What we must do about the Elect is stand up to them. . . . We must stop being afraid of these people, and once we do, there is something we need to steel ourselves against and get used to. People often ask, ‘How can I talk to people like this without being called a racist?’ The answer is: You cannot.”—John McWhorter
Read More“The best, most all-encompassing way to describe our world is hyper-novel. . . . Humans are extraordinarily well adapted to, and equipped for, change. But the rate of change itself is so rapid now that our brains, bodies, and social systems are perpetually out of sync.”—Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
Read More“Immaturity is shown by making false choices: living only in the past, or only in the present, or only in the future, or even living only two out of the three.”—David Whyte
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