Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I usually start with a big question, such as whether people today are happier than in the past, or why men have dominated women in most human societies. And then I follow the question instead of trying to follow my own answer, even if it means I can't formulate any clear theory.

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

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Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

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