We’ve gone from treating people as a means to an end to using them as props for pretend
When I got to the front of the self-checkout line I assumed there’d be a mirror but to my surprise and delight it was even better than I’d hoped
It’s counterintuitive but refusing to make hard choices only to see them made on your beha… by the loudest voices still counts as being hoisted by y…
The biggest stumbling block in bel… that God is in control is further accepting that He put us in charge
In the real world there is no plot to speak of but plot devices everywhere
Because the Real is unimaginable effective liars exploit what people want to be true– This is known as the Unreal But the opposite of the Unreal
One thing I could do Was need control
We’re told the space between galaxies is expanding but mightn’t the space within galaxies
“The week that AI went to scale” was immediately followed by “North America’s UFO weekend” as if all this time the UFOs had been waiting
I’m always asking God What is the meaning of life? In response, God looks at my life… What is the meaning of this?
Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment
A movement can only cohere around a shared wish and the left sticks together by collectively wishing that Jews deserve what they get
History’s first lesson– the ABCs– is that, unless coerced not to people kill the ones they hate History’s second lesson–
My utopia is a dystopia where I get to say I told you so
If you take the cognitive map of… and rip it in half you’re left with two Google Maps: the one on the right of Israel