provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
Sebastian Junger • Tribe — Sebastian Junger
Mothers with the most education report the highest stress and tiredness and the lowest happiness and meaning
The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
-Stewart Brand
"There are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs." — Thomas Sowell
Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.
I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.
via Sasha Chapin
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier.
