Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.
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People don’t need wild gods any more when they’re fat and rich and comfortable. Gods don’t take kindly to being forgotten.
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It’s a story about the toxic brew of confirmation bias, fuzzy math, and hubris. It’s a story about what people will do when they are allowed to spend other people’s money with minimal oversight.
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The magic is not in the analyzing or the understanding. The magic lives in the wonder of what we do not know.
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Whether wicked or well-intentioned, language is a way to get members of a community on the same ideological page. To help them feel like they belong to something big
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What a ride and we’re not done yet!
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The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.
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Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.
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We must learn to invite the winter in. We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.
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There were no clicks or eyeballs in the sensible, reasoned middle ground, and all the money in the world in encouraging users to rush to treat the extremes as if they were the center.
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As we have said from the beginning, we think people are built to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain. In reality, we are actually built to overcome our own pleasure and increase our own pain in the service of following society’s norms.
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Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.
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Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he’s worked so hard to subdue.
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‘The paradox,’ he says, ‘is that, though every organization thinks they have unique problems, many change issues are centred on one thing. The ability – or inability – to convert vision into action.’
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He’d had enough experience of both kinds of misfortune to know that there was a vast difference between feeling yourself a victim of random strokes of fate and having to accept that your troubles had been brought about by your own folly.
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Irony, it’s good for your blood.
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If you expected the present to be a continuation of the past, you weren't actually looking at the present through clear eyes.
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“The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in.”
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There is nothing more sacred than the Archives. Even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten.
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Depraved, disturbing, deranged, & delightful.
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