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There’s only one race, but over time we’ve elevated things like skin color, hair texture, language, and ethnicity to a level where they become the main criteria we use to judge entire groups of people.

John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love

This answer is no longer broadly resonant, or even acceptable as a go-forward baseline in the circles that run Western civilization (ref The Davos Agenda). It’s clear that pursuit of maximal human dominance has led to widespread, intractable and potentially irreversibly negative impact on “the planet”, by which we generally mean those planetary eco... See more

Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem

Alas, domesticated species paid for their unparalleled collective success with unprecedented individual suffering.

Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus

The reduction of science to mathematics means also, in our scientific age, the reduction of human action to behavior. Not only are machines becoming more human and taking over more of our human tasks, but also we humans are becoming ever more calculable, rational, and machine-like. It is now not unlikely that in near future the boundary dividing hu... See more

Human Being in an Inhuman Age

Don’t talk about “progress” in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness. –

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Bed of Procrustes

Incorrect Premises: many people’s beliefs about the past are rooted in false assumptions, such as assuming that riding a horse was as convenient as driving a car or of course there were nonpartisan, impersonal courts following formal procedures with jurisdiction over everyone or obviously everyone was either superstitious and ignorant or a liberal

Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard

though prejudice changes names—colonialism, racism, genocide, anti-Semitism, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing and profiling—every alias results in the same injustice. We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.