Aaron A Alli

An Economist, Poet, Violinist, Graphic designer, farmer. humanity first.....

[Veloria🐬 @veloriahq]

“𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦.”

— 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣

[PATRIOTIC SOJA ($TSIR-MUNCHAN) @Pressman2040]

❤️Everyone thought she came to celebrate... until they saw what she brought. 🥹❤️🐐

While others arrived with bouquets and cash gifts, this mother walked in with a live goat for her son on his final‑year graduation.

The moment he saw her, he couldn't hold back his emotions. He ran straight into her arms and hugged her tightly.

Some gifts are expensive. Others are priceless because they're filled with sacrifice, love, and a parent's heart.

Congratulations to the graduate! May every parent's labour end in celebration. ❤️🙏

If your mother has ever sacrificed for you, drop a ❤️ in the comments."

[Today In History @historigins]

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

- John Steinbeck

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Fairy Tales Teach Adults What Facts Alone Cannot

Chesterton famously observed:

“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”

Most people think fairy tales exist to entertain children.

G.K. Chesterton believed they exist to educate adults.

In The Ethics of Elfland, one of the greatest chapters in Orthodoxy, Chesterton makes a surprising claim. Fairy tales prepare us to understand reality better than many modern philosophies because they begin with wonder instead of explanation.

Children don’t wake up expecting the sun to rise. They delight that it does.

Adults often do the opposite. We become so accustomed to the world that we stop noticing how extraordinary it is. The sunrise becomes routine. A tree becomes ordinary. The changing seasons become background noise. We explain everything and appreciate very little.

Chesterton thought this was a profound mistake.

Science can describe why leaves change color or how gravity works. Those explanations are valuable. But they do not answer a deeper question: why should a universe capable of beauty, order, and life exist at all?

That question begins with wonder.

Chesterton argues that we confuse consistency with necessity. The sun has risen every morning of our lives, but that does not make it less remarkable. Habit slowly convinces us that the world’s greatest miracles are simply normal.

Fairy tales resist that temptation.

In them, the world is full of rules, meaning, danger, and possibility. A promise matters, courage matters, and choices have consequences. The hero succeeds because he lives within an order greater than himself.

Reality works much the same way.

Music requires harmony just like language requires grammar. Friendships require trust. Freedom flourishes within limits.

Perhaps that is why fairy tales endure long after childhood. They remind us that the world deserves gratitude before it demands explanation.

Chesterton believed philosophy begins with the same question that fills a child with awe.

Why is there something instead of nothing?

The people who never stop asking that question never truly outgrow wonder.

https://t.co/Hc731pNBLa

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire. The world is far more complex than the human mind, and there are far more patterns in Nature than we can ever hope to decipher.”

— Carl Sagan

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them”

— Erasmus

[Kingdom 👑 @lessons_kingdom]

A brilliant explanation of kingdom culture as compared to religion. Just spare your 5 minutes and be saved completely.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

There are many Africans who cite Singapore as proof that colonialism cannot explain African poverty. What they consistently fail to mention is how Singapore actually built itself. Because Singapore did not develop through deregulation and laissez faire capitalism. It developed through aggressive state intervention, strategic nationalisation, public housing programmes that housed over 80% of its population, a government that planned its economy with surgical interventionism and refused to leave development to the invisible hand of the market.

So it is genuinely amusing to watch people invoke Singapore in the same breath as they argue against land reform, against nationalisation, against any meaningful state intervention in the economy, while promoting the very neoliberal policies that Singapore deliberately rejected on its path to development.

You cannot want Singapore’s results while opposing Singapore’s methods. That is a contradiction. You are attempting to achieve the outcomes of socialist politics with laissez faire capitalist policies, and calling anyone who points out the inconsistency an ideologue.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

29 out of 31 patients. That is the cure rate.

Sickle cell disease. The thing that has haunted West African bloodlines for centuries. The pain crises that send children to hospitals screaming.

CRISPR fixed it. They take your own stem cells, edit one gene, put them back. FDA approved it in 2023.

A disease born in the tropics, cured in a laboratory. Science finally reaching the people who needed it longest.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she believed was the very first sign of known civilization. The student expected her to talk about a hatchet, perhaps fishhooks, the bow and arrow...

Possibly a building structure, clay pots or grinding stones and knives.

But no.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a thighbone that had been broken and then healed.

Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, your timely death is assured.

"You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal."

A broken thighbone that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.

"Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts." Mead said.

We are at our very best when we truly help and serve others.

Be civilized. Be kind. Be helpful

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

[☁️ @gardenofcolours]

shades of green

[billionaire_secrets @billionaire_key]

Whatever you do, do it with a sense of urgency

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

―George Orwell

[Aaron A Alli @aaronallino]

@FabrizioRomano I guess karma is back. Bayern have always complained of Refs when they play Madrid years back. I guess it's now Madrids time

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Israeli MK Meirav Cohen delivered a powerful speech in the Knesset on settler terrorism in the West Bank: “This is terror, and it is Jewish terror..... It’s not ‘just a few bad apples.’... The politicians excusing this violence are complicit.”

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘DUNE: PART 3’ has been released.

In theaters on December 18.

[🇺🇸 Bilal Khan @Peace4allpak]

Imran Khan was correct about Iran.

Mind blowing to hear his statement from 2019.

[Inferam @InferamAI]

Humans: 2026 vs. 2006.💔

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Humanity's unique intelligence comes with unique delusions; we should keep this in mind when facing the rise of artificial intelligence. 

Watch the whole thing here: https://t.co/xpCfZRM5d0