Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

I write with teenagers in mind.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.