In Japan, these grandparents didn't want Kids to feel lonely while waiting for the bus. So, they made a life-sized version of Totoro at the bus stop Now, the kids have a friend waiting there with them every day.
If somebody tells you something that goes against their incentives and identity – pay attention.
E.g. If someone tells you the worst part about living in their city or the worst part of their job – it’s usually signal rather than noise.
Why?
They’ve had to go against their identity to say it.
They’ve had to swim upstream.
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.
Edward O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
“Born This Way” and the Hauntology of Gender & Sexuality