Thought provoking

“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society — Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.” — Rollo May

You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this

In any case one can’t get rid of the unconscious that easily. Here is a sentence analogous to “We have always been terraforming, so let’s do it consciously now”: “I know I’m an addict so now I’m going to drink fully aware of that fact.” Being aware of “unconscious biases” is a contradiction in terms. And there is a still more salient ecological

We just know that something feels wrong, but we don’t quite have new ideas about what to do about it. At best, we’re recycling old ones and say we’ll do them proper this time.

How you arrived at what you think is more important than what you think