“I thought of the resistless passion which drives men to undertake terrific scrambles. No example can deter them . . . a peak can exercise the same irresistible power of attraction as an abyss.”
– Théophile Gautier, 1868
why are your kids so smart?
Every time someone finds out how amazing she is at math I say it’s because she had extra vaccines and tons of fluoride.
The rich pretended it makes you autistic, it doesn’t it makes you smarter. They want their kids to be the ones getting top jobs while poor people are stuck in manual labor.
Smart people know I’m being an ass, antivaxers look startled. Logic isn’t working I figured I’d just try my own disinformation campaign.
There are three ways to make a living:
- Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.
- Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.
- Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.
The rest is commentary.
Society holds together through spectacle and habit rather than accountability
It is necessary to choose the difficult truth over the easy satisfying one.
The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication.