If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.

With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.