Eight years ago today, I was asked to give a speech on the topic of truth at the University of Maine. I had just returned from a field hospital in Iraq after the liberation of Mosul and I had one clear thing to say. If I was given that task again today, I think I would say the exact same thing.
Life alone, life given, not exacted from others, can save a [person’s] life.
—André Trocmé
Jack: 0
Skunks: 2
I am midway through Karl Jasper‘s Man in the Modern Age and I’ve been perpetually blown away by the relevance today of literally everything that one man said in 1930. Everything. Every sentence. No exceptions. The fact the this is a library copy and I can’t use my own pen is killing me.
The Wisdom of Not Knowing — an excellent, lovely conversation from Futurology