December 2007
10 posts
“The human mind, as it thinks about categories, seems to prefer essences to...”
– Overcoming Bias: Cultish Countercultishness
“Evolution is not a God, but if it were, it wouldn’t be Jehovah. It would...”
– Overcoming Bias: An Alien God
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“I think continually of those who were truly great—
The names of those who...”
– Stephen Spender, quoted in a biography of peace activist AJ Muste
Another thing we have to understand is that the...
The highest and lowest classes already know this in their bones: the only thing that matters is what you can get away with. The police will invade your house, kill your dog, and steal your computer if you run a perfectly legal website that scrutinizes the police too closely. But you can flagrantly violate the law by occupying an empty house, raising chickens in your back yard, and providing...
I am beginning to learn that I can be...
even in the company of others who have become so much everybody-else that they will find me troubling. My Purpose in life is to provoke, to allow to emerge, Let-Self-Change in others. To do that I have to be a model of Let-Self-Change myself: open, honest, strong, yet sensitive. A year ago I would have said this would be impossible. Now I am finding it easy, fun, natural. What’s more, it...