Peter Musso

“There’s our nation with its cult of meritocracy that judges your worth by your IQ and your number of degrees. A nation that spews bilge about equal economic potential while, as of 2021, the top 1 percent has 32 percent of the wealth, and the bottom half less than 3 percent, where you can find an advice column headlined “It’s Not Your Fault if You Are Born Poor, but It’s Your Fault if You Die Poor,” which goes on to say that if that was your lamentable outcome, “I’ll say you’re a wasted sperm.”[18”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

“If a generation’s shadow is two phases of life older (or younger), then a generation’s matching archetype is four phases of life older (or younger). The affinity between grandparent and grandchild is universal folk wisdom—as is the tension between parent and child. Lewis Mumford sums up the pattern nicely: “The commonest axiom of history is that every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

What these archetypal myths illustrate is this: Your generation isn’t like the
generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation
that shaped the generation that shaped you. Or, put another way: Archetypes
do not create archetypes like themselves; instead, they create the shadows of
archetypes like themselves.”
― Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“America’s fundamental laws exist to make the job of law enforcement not easier but harder. This isn’t a bug, it’s a core feature of democracy”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record