Most things are too big, and the bigger they get the worse they are.
Sep 152020
Sep 142020
About a century ago “poet” became a polite term for half-wit, and then it was “artist”, and it will be “scientist” sooner than you think.
Sep 112020
In any sufficiently advanced civilization, the Top will use the Bottom to bludgeon the Middle.
Sep 102020
If you throw like a girl, you probably argue like one.
Sep 092020
School selects partly for intelligence but mostly for compliance.
Sep 082020
Humans perceive nothing as accidental, and this is no accident.
Sep 072020
Impostor syndrome, n. The realization that you are, in fact, an impostor.
Sep 042020
If you want to know what most people’s inner lives are like, imagine the Old Testament, but starring you instead of the Jews.
Sep 032020
There is a happiness in widely-shared enforced misery that goes a long way toward explaining nostalgia for Stalinism, or broadcast television.
Sep 022020
The Victorians used to tell us fiction rots the mind when in fact it rots the soul.