If you are reading this you can’t possibly complain: mobile phone, internet, English, time to read, friends…Count blessings!
As you age it is not the wealth, nor power, but love and peace that sustain you.
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
Democracy: Rule by a minority clique by manipulating the majority vote.
Have you ever seen idiots becoming ministers? But this revolutionary trick does work!
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
Degenerative democracy is a system in which stars of excellence of a society are subjugated to, and governed by its scrum. Isn’t it time to ask whether we are heading that way?
Scarcely a day passes when something doesn’t pinch me with this realization: What a goddamn idiot I must have been to make this mistake so far, or to not have known this, or that, until now. My, my, we don’t ever cease to learn.