Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.