Complexity at its best: God created the evolutionary algorithm, but had to create a world too, to see where it would all lead. The world is the smallest device capable of accurately computing where it will all lead. He’s still watching and He is often quite surprised.
Are the citizens really running our national government? That is the theory, that we the people call the shots. As imperfect as our system has always been, it has been getting far worse in recent years. Exhibit A: large oil companies getting huge tax breaks at a time when they…
Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule. Nietzsche--Beyond Good & Evil #156
Bertrand Russell: "We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach."