The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at expla… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The intellectshual world is populated by a collection of people who are much better at explaining than understanding.

I am very rude to *high status* people who are rude to waiters/waitresses. Usually twice as rude. Sometimes three times, just to make sure. You cannot believe how many pple on the "left" are rude to waiters, as they feel their "mission" insulates them from humans.

Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered.

To explain LOCALISM: On August 6, 1806, the Holy Roman Empire was abolished. Goethe noted that day that the people staying in the same inn as him were far more interested in the quarrel between their coachman and the innkeeper than in its demise.