Observations from Another World

What we know, we can control - what we don’t know, controls us

e always become obsessed by that which beats us and lose all interest in that which we can beat easily.

ur beliefs are dangerous - not because they are ‘necessarily’ right but because we act on them as ‘though’ they were (and that we have the ‘right’, morally, to do what we do,

The first learns what makes others tick as well as themselves - the second doesn’t want to know how anyone thinks, including themselves as it would mean being response-able for their own existence and they’d rather somebody else was

ntelligent people face their fears (study them - the scientific approach). The frightened try to eradicate what they’re scared of (Suppress it/ kill it off - out of sight, out of mind - the political alternative).

The only thing we ever truly fight is our own ignorance.