I Can't Explain Why We Live This Way
"Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I try to follow."
~ Brett Dennen
Fictional Reality
What is amazing is that as history unfolded, fictional reality became more and more powerful so that today, the most powerful forces in the world are these fictional entities."
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Why We Care So Much about the News
People like to look at their own lives as a story.
~ Matthew Gentzkow
Paradox of the Border
"What is this addiction? We have destabilized much of the world with our addiction. We’ve created a drug economy in Afghanistan, in Thailand, in Bolivia and we’ve caused turmoil in Guatemala and now we have elevated thugs in Mexico to the status of billionaires with our despair. And yet, we are an optimistic people."
~ Richard Rodriguez