Found some of his old comments on free speech enlightening.

“I think offense is the collateral damage of free speech, and it’s no reason not to have free speech. [...] Having free speech and some people getting upset by it is the lesser of two evils because not having free speech is horrendous.”
Would have preferred a proper justification rather ( Read more... )

In Hinduism, if you read the Bhagavad Gita, the philosophy is not one of renouncing the world, because the idea is that not doing something, is no different than doing something. [...] the argument is that you don't want to renounce action, but you want to renounce the fruits of the action. You don't do it because of the outcome, you do it because ( Read more... )

Anyone who blogs for money is not worth reading.
You only get readership if you blog for money.

I see a dangerous apathetic behavior that bothers me ( Read more... )

Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering ( Read more... )

Prospective CEOs should submit to psychiatric evaluations before being hired. High-level political and military leadership as well ( Read more... )

Doesn't mean we have to get swept up with it.

Rather than keep up, do the opposite.

Ignore it.

Relax.

Slow down.

Savor life.

education, careerism, capitalism, religion -- in short modern society -- is slavery obfuscated by layers of abstraction
if you're reading this from the far future: some of us knew

Short and simple concept to make the world better with your own actions: Radiate compassion ( Read more... )

I was wondering today, as I often do, what enables or allows bad people to continue to thrive in the modern day (c.f. for their genes to propagate so well ( Read more... )