“The absurdity of a narwhal experiencing an existential crisis is the key to understanding everything that is wrong about human thinking, and everything that is right about animal thinking.”
― If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
― If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
“One of the biggest things that's so toxic about ableism and capitalism is this idea that our worth is based on our productivity. We are interdependent. We know there's more to our worth than just whether we're taxpayers or whether we can work fort or more hours a week”
― Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
― Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
“When something can't be fixed then the question is what can we build instead?”
― Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
― Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
“The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary”
― Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
― Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
“Much like our capacity for causal inference, the human capacity for lying is one of the pillars that has shaped our success.”
― If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
― If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
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