“My message, as an aging Gen X-er to millennials and those coming after them, is: Go get us. Take us down — all those cringing provincials who still think climate change is a hoax, that being transgender is a fad or that “socialism” means purges and re-education camps. Rid the world of all our…”Tagged: How To Think, Millennials, Future Thinking
“Power is like money: imaginary, entirely dependent upon belief. Most of the power of institutions lies in the faith people have in them. And cynicism is also a kind of faith: the faith that nothing can change, that those institutions are corrupt beyond all accountability, immune to intimidation or…”Tagged: Millennials, Future Thinking, Gun Control, Politics
“One of my students once asked me, when I was teaching the writing of political op-ed essays, why adults should listen to anything young people had to say about the world. My answer: because they’re afraid of you. They don’t understand you. And they know you’re going to replace them.”Tagged: Millennials, Future Thinking, Gun Control
“As with all historic tipping points, it seems inevitable in retrospect: Of course it was the young people, the actual victims of the slaughter, who have finally begun to turn the tide against guns in this country. Kids don’t have money and can’t vote, and until now burying a few dozen a year has…”Tagged: forgiveness, Gun Control
“It’s easy to get complacent and imagine that the narrow band your partner allows you to see (or the only one you’re comfortable looking at) is all there is.”Tagged: Love, real love, chemistry
“It’s like zonking yourself out on morphine while the cancer painlessly devours you.”Tagged: Bad News, Shitty News, Depressing news, The News, Politics