An Exercise in Easy turned 12 today!
An Exercise in Easy turned 12 today!
Today is Give Ozarks Day and if you can donate even $5 to the Ozarks Literacy Council, it will help. It has one full time employee and one part timer. Last year, they paired 71 learners and tutors. With your help, they can do even more. Today, May 3 only. Thank you so much.
It’s almost like “a meritocracy in which people and ideas compete and the best win” is necessarily a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of frequent combat between unbearable people with no other obligations.
It’s easy to be against the aristocracy because it’s clear you aren’t a member. It’s hard to be against the meritocracy because it’s constantly telling you you just might be, having been the single most important person in your whole life to date and all.
But really you and I are no more likely to be Jeff Bezos than we are the Habsburgs, so give the slow guy in front of you at Chipotle a minute before you use your technocrat ESP to crush his head inside the tortilla press
(via danup)