The arguments worth having are with yourself.
Sep 282021
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Sep 132021
Choose your rabbit holes wisely.
Sep 072021
The world has always fought over ideas, whose truth is at best a minor strategic advantage.
Aug 262021
One does not defeat nonsense by refuting it.
Jul 122021
You never see into what you see through.
Jun 292021
There’s no point in having opinions unless at least a few of them are indefensible.
Jun 182021
There is almost nothing that being prefaced with “social” cannot spoil.
Jun 142021
The Fundamental Law of Fashion states that what becomes popular must be abandoned: thus the government and press must be trusted, now that everyone distrusts them.
May 242021
Don’t ask which of your beliefs are wrong. Ask which are pointless.
Apr 282021
Certainty, n. The desperate expedient to which we are driven by the necessity to act.