Truth has many levels, the lowest truth is the truth of fact which is mostly a defense against the other levels.

“If only I knew more about myself.” Yes, you are being lied to, by yourself. “If only I knew what to do with my life.” As if the reason you can’t act is that you don’t know enough. I’ve seen that movie before, too, when you finally get the knowledge you think you need in order to act, you gouge out your eyes to ensure that you can’t, and everyone e

So you can follow the order: first, there is no desire for power. In order to cope with this-- not the loss of power but the lack of desire for power-- one conveys the impression of having knowledge. The warnings aren’t for the victims to protect them from their impotence, but for the impotent warners to signify omniscience. They aren’t fighting ol

To be clear, the conflict itself isn’t bad, only it’s compartmentalization in the media.

The hard is the third case that sounds like it’s the midpoint of a continuum between the two but is actually an entirely different problem: you are not sure if others do hear them. Now the voices are not the problem, and obliterating the voices does not solve the problem of the disparity in knowledge; in fact, merely deleting the voices after they

For all but a few, math became arithmetic and philosophy became accounting, and getting some power was far less satisfying than depriving the other of theirs. And here we are.

The New Testament is the description of God's place in a world which doesn't require him. It has Rome.

We say might shouldn't make right, to hide what’s not really true, what’s only a wish: that it could. And when we “mighty” choose not to act, it must be because of our benevolence, not possibly weakness, cowardice-- impotence.

Privacy leads to fantasy, and fantasy leads to action. Privacy deprives the public of knowledge, it leaves them to fantasize, it forces them to have to act; so publicizing things, even superficially or stereotypically, makes them more knowable, keeps them at the level of images and-- reality. Under our new Overlords, privacy as a possibility must b