Category: lint

  • Moral Flip: Empathy as Chaos

    Empathy for those less fortunate leads to pleas for benevolent altruism: Universal basic, open borders, or reallocated police funding. Taken…

  • Moral Flip: Idealism leads to Evil

    High moral principles reduce room for compromise. In fact, compromise itself is often seen as suspect. Inverse to our lauded…

  • Relaxing amongst loved ones

    There is a gentleness in being around people you love who love you. When profoundly content, self-regulation can soften. This…

  • The Fragmented Mirror

    In the pre-digital era, a universal similarity of content was reflected back to the mass audience (the public): they gazed…

  • Controlled descent

    At some point (in the journey of life) our inertia diminishes. At this apogee/apex/peak we start slide down, captured by…

  • life as chess

    Given a well-constructed set of rules, only a few solutions exist, yet moves must be made to progress. Each action/step/move…

  • Disciplined excess

    Religion is false, not empirical rationality, however, it produces a different degree of outcome than the lies of self motivated,…

  • Removal of the Problematic

    When an argument shows up and is escalated (appealed) to a higher authority, the problematic situation is dutifully regulated out…

  • double standards

    To bear two standards (banners or flags of loyalty) is to serve multiple masters: the favorite person and fidelity to…

  • Rock Star v Dragon

    The rockstar creates and energizes while the dragon protects its hoard. The glamour of creativity is alluring, yet for most,…