Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

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

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

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.