If you are not anonymous, how often do you refrain from posting/liking/sharing something on social media because, although you agree with it, you fear that it might harm you socially since its content and/or author is not politically correct?
Over the last few tens of thousands of years, the human brain, which had been growing larger for eons, suddenly shrunk again - probably due to a major software update that reduced consumption of resources. https://t.co/lwWsBWHpVm
The most successful people I've met:
1. Read constantly
2. Workout daily
3. Amass a vast library of cuneiform tablets for their royal palace at Nineveh
4. Learn oil divination & mathematics
5. Believe in themselves
6. Destroy the Kushite Empire
7. Devastate the lands of Elam
Modern people often feel most content in a hotel room.
They feel liberated by the novel emptiness. No closet of unworn clothes to remind them of past identities. No calendar to create anxiety for the future.
Many of the things we fear losing are things we would not miss.
"Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism."
Puritans change clothes but not tactics.
These shrill and censorial individuals enjoy the sound of no voice but their own.
These are the people who, if they should stumble mistakenly into a museum, will have to fight the desire to clothe the naked and smash the unorthodox.