It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.