“Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do.” –Gary Kasparov

"If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime." –James Frazer, The Golden Bough

“From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” –Kant

“Every animal is sad after coitus, except the human female and the rooster.” –Ancient Greek physician Galen

The “fundamental weakness of feminist analysis” is its failure “to see that men may need the status of the main provider role to give them a sufficient reason to become fully involved, and stay involved, in the longer-term draggy business of family life.” –British sociologist

the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every day. (so we can blame the depopulation crisis squarely on Huberman and Attia)

"God made coal. Then he hid it. Then some fool found it and we've been in trouble ever since!" –Old Colorado Miners' Saying

“The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed … Your country demands your services; the Revolution is not over. ” –Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1776

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations” –Cory Doctrow

“In this world there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough” –James Baldwin #halffull

Hannah Arendt: “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man." –Diogenes #watchyourparkingmeters #onehonestman

“The really important thing is to try and make opinion increasingly responsible to the facts. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies.” –Walter Lippman

"If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts —

#NObeforeyougo

"The Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company announced this week it had reduced water pressure to such low levels that in Tehran — a city of 10 million people, many living and working in high-rise buildings — water could not flow above the second floor of apartment

“There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.” ― Robert Anton Wilson

sooo...what you're saying Mister President is that Mexicans do Coke better? #therealthing #caneandable

lenin and mao lost a lot in translation. But Karl wasn't wrong about everything... #zooanimals

Yarvin’s DOGE disillusionment is somewhat surreal, almost as if Marx had lived long enough to troll the Bolsheviks for misreading “Das Kapital.” –Elizabeth Dwoskin

“Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.” –Edward R. Murrow #audiencecapture #thoughtleaders #galaxybrains