"My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like "recognition" and "credit" warp them, creating an atm… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some marketing/framing savvy pple figured out that the most effective way to build a fascist movement is to call it: antifascist.

Promising someone good luck as a reward for good deeds sounds like a bribe—perhaps the remnant of an archaic, pre-deontic preclassical morality.

I treat my friends as temporary pre-enemies, my enemies as temporary pre-friends, and my post-friends as permanent enemies. The Bed of Procrustes