In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.