And I don’t just mean our various wars but just everything. Seems like everyone is just interested in taking what they can before the hammer drops. We think it’ll be fifty years from now but we can wake up in a year to a world we don’t recognize.

Our thinking is changing far less quickly than our circumstances.

We should all be fighting a lot harder for the future we want to see… - People either don’t seem very serious about it - are too willing to copy for opportunity capture instead of the real work - or are stuck in the belief that the big stuff can’t actually change

Frequent lamenting about how bad things are (in politics or relationships or other culture gripes) is mostly a way for people to avoid responsibility for what they can change. If you constantly repeat that everything is bad, it lets your ego off the hook for doing nothing.

It’s amazing how normal it’s become for peoples hobbies to boil down to nothing more than some form of consumption.

There is a peculiar attitude, here at the beginning of the 21st century. On the one hand, we agree things aren’t fine. On the other hand, there’s a widespread feeling that there’s nothing to be done .

No amount of productivity will quench our inner fears about self-worth and helplessness.

“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”