We all like the idea of society just taking care of us because it sounds good like the products Billy Mays used to sell. Life can be scary — heck, it’s always scary to know at the end we die and probably go nowhere — and sometimes it sounds good to have them take care [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
It never goes away
Every age has taboos, just like it has ideals. These are the stick and the carrot, respectively. If you want to succeed, find some way to justify what you’re doing in terms of the ideals; if you want to knock out some competition, bully them and accuse them of being the taboo. One of the [...]
The First Lecture
Randy Pausch shot to great fame with his “last lecture,” in which he teaches all the things he learned from life shortly before he departs it. In this writing, I would like to take the opposite approach, and instead present the “first lecture,” or things I have learned from coming to consciousness in life. By [...]
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