I have this growing problem in my life which is that the more I feel like I am getting close to the answers to important questions I care about, the less I'm able to explain to anybody else what I'm thinking about. It's like I've gone down a long path to some mythical fountain of youth, and am almost there, but then, when somebody stops and asks ( Read more... )

In one of my fantasy future lives, I write some sort of kick-ass political manifesto.

Of course, for it to be a successful manifesto, it needs to be chock full of opaque political jargon. People must actually learn a new language to be able to understand it--this makes it impossible for devotees to accept criticism from without. The only people ( Read more... )