Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical.

The missile defense component is a minor feature that nobody takes very seriously. Nobody really believes that the US is trying to protect itself from North Korea. That's not serious. But the militarization of space is quite serious.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.