Politics
Often people choose not to choose, and we should respect their choice.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison
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People aren’t really looking to be economically stable before they start families; they’re looking to be existentially stable. They will opt-out of important life decisions altogether because they are waiting for the day when they will feel like more of a confident person with a firmer sense of self before making a commitment—not knowing that it’s
... See moreEZRA KLEIN: No, and I really mean this, and everybody is right. I’ve come to think of this kind of thing. And I think there are many dynamics like this, that you have to think of it like an ecosystem. We always want people to be the right balance, but ecosystems need to be in balance. You need young political thinking that is kind of wild and... See more
Kinship is so central to small-scale societies that it might legitimately be regarded as one of the main organising principles of the human social world.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
It would be a massive cultural and behavioural shift to radically recast the automobile as a symbol not of freedom, but of restriction.