When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.
WW2 truly ended in Eastern Europe in 1989.
Filipino president verbally attacks the Pope, jokes about raping missionaries, announces that “I don’t care about human rights”, catcalls female journalists, encourages citizens to shoot drug dealers, and called the US ambassador “a gay son of a whore”. But also, he is lauded for his work promoting women’s and LGBT rights in the Phillipines, and during his tenure as Mayor of Davao transformed it from “the murder capital of the Philippines” to “the world’s fourth safest place”.
Life. n. An immutable, append-only log of events.
Natasha is “Ah, Satan” backwards.
Joke in a Russian newspaper: 'Trump only watches the Olympics to see how high the Mexican pole vaulters can jump'
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
'Conventional wisdom' is just group think without basis.
The only winner tonight is the Voyager probe, which is speeding away from the Earth at 17 kilometers/second.
One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.
Nobody wants to pay taxes, but everyone is happy to invest.
Our children's books, our iconography and our TV screens are still full of giraffes, wolves and chimpanzees, but the real world has very few of them left.
As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how.
Nowhere is this divorce between rhetoric and reality more evident than in the formulation of global drug policies, where too often emotions and ideology rather than evidence have prevailed.
Hackers don't break software, they simply demonstrate that it was already broken.
Avant-garde is now just a tiny fashion category. It became so cheap and pretentious. I hate it. But still, I strongly believe in the avant-garde spirit: to voice opposition to traditional values. It is not just a youthful sentiment; I live my life by it. Rebellion. You will only be able to oppose something and find something of your own after traveling the long road of tradition.
Is democracy sustainable in a country where you have no real growth for 50% of the population?
Terrorists on actual terrorist missions to kill people dress in civilian cover. Stop being xenophobic racist idiots.
There is no more important period of our lives than childhood; a good childhood is the bedrock of a happy life and a bad one just about dooms us to enduring misery.
Nijedan život nije sa hepiendom. Osuđeni smo na tužni kraj. Hepiend je sredstvo za manipulaciju, samo u gadostima od Pretty Woman ima da milioner bos nosi ružu prostitutki s ulice.