It requires only belief in a few fashionable ideas to make the world a place of endless wonder and constant surprise.
Jul 102020
Jul 092020
First we were killed by nature, then by rulers, and finally we resorted to killing ourselves.
Jul 082020
It is frequently remarked that IQ tests measure your ability to perform well on IQ tests; the same could be said, more accurately, of school.
Jul 072020
If your thoughts seem banal to you, it may be because you have lived with them for a long time and grown used to them, or it may be because they are.
Jul 062020
Democracy encourages would-be rulers to act like the people in an abject effort to gain the power to act for them.
Jul 032020
Once it was fashionable to be fat, to show that you got enough to eat; and then it became fashionable to be thin, to distinguish yourself from the ostentatiously fat. This is the complete history of taste.
Jul 022020
All hobbyists, but especially political aficionados, secretly regard lack of enthusiasm for their avocation as a moral failing.
Jul 012020
Monotheism dies that monism may live.
Jun 302020
Overrated: State violence
Underrated: Personal violence
Jun 292020
It is a man’s duty, now all but abandoned, to quash a public nuisance without official assistance.