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What I find far more ominous is how seldom, today, we see the phrase “the 22nd century.” Almost never. Compare this with the frequency with which the 21st century was evoked in popular culture during, say, the 1920s.

Poslednja veštica u Evropi je spaljena pod Karađorđom.

The engineering world doesn’t have a conception of how to intervene in debate that isn’t infrastructural.

In one famous passage, he asks why Shakespeare’s villains killed only a few people, while Lenin and Stalin murdered millions. The reason is that Macbeth and Iago “had no ideology.” Real people do not resemble the evildoers of mass culture, who delight in cruelty and destruction. No, to do mass evil you have to believe it is good, and it is ideology that supplies this conviction.

A good percentage of Humans are prone to mass delusions which lead to irrational behavior. This is a known bug in our operating system, and we have designed some parts of our society to protect us against it.

There is a moral imperative to help those in need—and conservatives should recognize this—while at the same time friction is inevitable when two cultures exist side by side—and liberals should recognize this. One would hope for a reasoned discussion of how to balance the two. But that won’t happen as long as those whose are insulated from the consequences of policy—need I point out that Los Angeles is not located in Houston?—use multiculturalism as a weapon to enforce class.

This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails, eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught.

The only way for human civilization to survive is to find a way to make our brains a million times more effective than they are now.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

This looks like a fascinating paper on the way that residents of small towns in Nigeria refuse polio vaccination as a way of negotiating with the government for better local services.