Absurdism is the secular equivalent of the doctrine of grace.

Cui bono? Every time you see a one-sided story or a sensationalist headline, ask who benefits in terms of status, money or power. It's usually the source...

Just as medicine confers no benefit if it does not drive away physical illness, so philosophy is useless if it does not drive away suffering of the mind. - Epicurus

An important petition, and simultaneously an excellent lesson on how humour works

“When a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds” - @JonHaidt

Win the admiration and kudos of your friends, without wasting time on a tiresome game!

The damage to Morrison’s reputation was not caused by Joyce’s words. Joyce being the least respectable member of cabinet- who listens to him?Instead we are horrified that Morrison tolerates keeping such a two faced, untrustworthy, person of poor character as our deputy PM.

Happy Richie Benaud day…

Problem-solvers take an issue and cut it up into small, solvable chunks. Problem-sellers do the opposite: bundling various remotely-connected issues together into one big, scary problem. The consequence is that problem-sellers make problems look insurmountable when they're not.

After the war in the 1940s, Aussies were issued an allocation of ration tickets for food clothing and fuel. Things were in short supply. Nah... it couldn’t happen. Could it?

On Twitter, both 'Blockers' and the Blocked like to boast about it. Blockers, because attracting hate is a sign of how brave and honest their views are. The Blocked, to tell the world they're heroic agent provocateurs fighting wrong!

everyone needs a niche in life..

Is there a ‘Rule’ that quantifies the infinitesimally small odds of someone actually changing their mind in a Facebook or Twitter argument?

The appeal of ideologies is that they absolve us from the obligation to think for ourselves. Many, if not most, are willing to sacrifice their freedom of speech and independent thought for the consolations of certitude. -Andrew Doyle in “Free Speech”

"It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain

Narratives which invoke the omnipresent forces of ‘The Patriarchy,’ ‘New World Order,’ ‘White Supremacy,’ and ‘Big Pharma’ usually contain some kernels of truth. But they are over-extrapolated to the point that they flatten reality into a simplistic binary of good vs evil.

Lockdown Day #1 At least I can sit in the sun with Fred Nietzsche for company.

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.” - Carl Jung.

This is a great history lesson to frame the woes of contemporary media..

Or is it that man and woman have always been gender signifiers and I’ve been misusing the terms??