When you work on the same book for 16 years … the output will either have the quality of katana steel folded 10,000 times … Or unreadable garbage … Or maybe both … Guess we’ll start finding out in 10 odd days
Celebrate America’s 250th by watching a film that will change how you see the US military and environmentalism itself.
🇺🇸 Earth’s Greatest Enemy on Apple TV & Amazon July 4 🇺🇸
Rory Sutherland nails a quiet injustice that’s growing fast.
You can work insanely hard for 30 years, climb to the top… yet still live in mediocrity because your parents never owned a house in a good area.
Meanwhile, your junior colleagues inherit property from parents in Kensington or Surbiton and cruise through life with houses, wealth, and freedom.
The system taxes earned income heavily but barely touches inherited wealth, property gains, and pensions.
Economic models hide the problem, they use one “average” person, so inequality vanishes in the math (hello, Bill Gates effect).
This isn’t just unfair. It’s building a new class system based on inheritance, not effort.
What do you see as the biggest driver of unfairness between generations today?
Costa Rica has successfully doubled its rainforest cover in just a few decades, becoming the first tropical country to completely reverse deforestation.
@TheBillionaireU I know how to eat it properly … but make a mess purposely … so that leeches of humanity like the ones he’s describing stay tf away from me
@TheNewsAgents@maitlis If everybody wants to keep wasting their time on Netflix and Amazon Prime and not paying attention to what’s going on around us, we are going to lose all your rights
was in Paris in 2016 for the France Portugal UEFA final … France lost, the stadium died … thousands of people were walking back together towards the metro, and it felt like you could hear a pin drop. Same inside the metro. Outside the metro, we were staying in the center next to Châtelet, the streets looked like curfew.
Was in Berlin last night at venue with more than a thousand people watching … No one really looked sad.
The people who feel most homeless may be the ones carrying humanity's future.
Most people spend their lives trying to fit into the world they were born into.
But Steiner suggested that some souls simply cannot.
He speaks of what translators call "homeless souls" — individuals who feel a profound inner estrangement from the assumptions, values, and worldview of their age.
Not because they are antisocial.
Not because they are incapable of belonging.
But because something in them refuses to live a merely inherited life.
Most of us naturally grow into the beliefs of our family, our nation, our education, and the spirit of our time. These become our psychological "home."
But some souls arrive with a different orientation.
They feel that something essential is missing.
Material success feels incomplete.
Inherited beliefs demand understanding rather than mere acceptance.
For Steiner, this is not a personality quirk — it is karmic.
These souls carry impulses that their surrounding culture has not yet learned to recognize.
From childhood they may feel inwardly alone even among friends.
Not because they reject the world — but because the world does not answer the questions they carry.
Steiner saw this not as a weakness, but as a responsibility.
Such souls are called to become inwardly free rather than merely adapted.
To seek truth through conscious spiritual effort rather than passive inheritance.
In this sense, Anthroposophy becomes a spiritual home built through knowledge, not tradition — a place where these souls can finally orient themselves.
The point is not withdrawal.
It is transformation of the world.
The deepest task of the "homeless soul" is to build inwardly what cannot yet be found outwardly.
Steiner compared such individuals to blossoms that appear before spring, or seeds that germinate before the soil is ready.
They arrive early.
They often feel misunderstood.
But their task is not to complain that the future has not arrived.
Their task is to help prepare it.
Whether one accepts Steiner’s worldview or not, the image remains powerful:
Feeling “out of place” is not always a sign that something is wrong with you.
Sometimes it is the first sign that you are searching for a home that has not yet been built.