Culture in the Blender

After writing that last post, I realize what exactly feels so incomplete about people with strong convictions about what the world is like – cynics, activists and optimists alike – that don’t have a global focus. How can you claim to understand the world when all you’ve ever bothered trying to understand is a small [...]

Knowledge is not power in itself, but it is the root of power.
If you don’t know what’s going on, you can never be anything but a pawn at best. Controlling a situation requires understanding what’s going and why it’s going on as best as you can. Including when the situation you’re trying to control is [...]