The land of the possible has many paths, and we can know only one. Everything's stochastic and impermanent. Our lives are packed with luggage, the vast majority of which would be best left at the side of the road. Utopia is a place with kind and reasonable people using coalition-building, science and determination to solve … Continue reading Apocalypse is the Suburb of Utopia
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The Key to Happiness: Coconuts
"...the key to happiness [is] simple: Abandon your earthly possessions, move to a tropical island, become a nudist, and eat only coconuts." —Zoe Bernard,"The Curious Case of August Engelhardt, Leader of a Coconut-Obsessed Cult." Atlas Obscura. November 30, 2017. Imagine sitting down in a small room in Germany in 1902 and listening to August Engelhardt's … Continue reading The Key to Happiness: Coconuts
