I set it off with my own rhyme cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are the first society in which being an elder is not indicative of superior fitness. We are also one of the very few societies in which being an elder does not bring a higher social status.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

The “persecution” of the Christians had vastly more to do with the intolerance of the Christians for the pantheon of local gods than the reverse. What we read is history written by the Christian side, not the Greco-Roman one.