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.

The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.