It must be nice to pick a political “team” and then never again bother to question whether your team’s beliefs might be fundamentally flawed.
It must be nice to do a shallow scan of everything you encounter and look for anything you disagree with — so you can use that as an excuse to disregard everything else a person might be trying to say. It must be convenient to know you don’t have to bother considering anything you don’t already believe is true.
American society is still pretty good at doing things and making things. We have better tools and technology than ever for molding physical objects into what we want them to be. (Those are an extension of open inquiry by previous generations.) But we are failing on a deeper level — and we are heading toward a devastating collapse — because we have become intellectually shallow and morally arrogant.
We are rushing over a cliff as fast as we can — and everybody can point a finger at someone else to blame.
Alternative cultures exist because mainstream culture is alienating
We can’t really change people, even if they offer us the control
Narcissists set themselves up for miserable lives and lonely deaths
What if our craving for dopamine drives our desires and addictions?
Making good art is really hard; getting paid for it is even harder
Your ignored mistakes quickly become impossible to change
We’re neither friends nor enemies, just strangers who share the past
‘This path leads to somewhere I think I can finally say, I’m home’
When love finally dies, it’s like a fever breaks and the pain is gone