Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed