We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.