Andreas Vlach

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.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. [[Noam Chomsky]]

When the going gets tough, creative problem solvers create an easier, simpler problem that they can solve. They resolve that easier issue thoroughly and then study that simple scenario with laser focus. Those insights often point the way to a resolution of the original difficult problem.

In den meisten Ländern kann man sich heute – eingeschränkt allenfalls durch Eigentumsrechte – innerhalb des Territoriums frei bewegen, muss aber staatliche Kontrollen akzeptieren, sobald man eine Staatsgrenze überschreiten möchte. Der Staat wurde zum einzig legitimen Akteur der Mobilitätsermöglichung und ‑beschränkung sowie der Grenzkontrolle am

“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.” by Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Because it’s cool” is an underrated way to make decisions

-via Jason Yuan