You should study history because human psychology hasn’t changed in the past five thousand years, and the two methods of understanding it today are experiments done on bored college students for class credit or the entire collected record of everything that’s ever happened.
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
I’m not even being hyperbolic when I say the US has completely given up on even the pretense of fighting to preserve the habitability of our planet. This goes even beyond politics. Culturally, you can see that Americans no longer care.
“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”