mahiwaga

I'm not really all that mysterious

the glue of civilization

It’s like some people completely ignore the fact that a civilization cannot survive without people giving a shit about other people who aren’t related to them. The higher the proportion of stupid, selfish assholes there are in your civilization, the faster it will collapse. Cooperation with non-relatives is the only reason why we managed to evolve from the savanna and not get completely wiped out by other animals who are bigger and stronger than us. Behavioralists have classically called it altruism but, in reality, it’s enlightened self-interest.

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random completely out-of-context thought on a slow tuesday afternoon at work

It’s not much of a sacrifice, to hold back so she could be with the better man, if there wasn’t any chance she’d be yours anyway.

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a dearth of creativity

For some reason, I started looking back at my blog posts from exactly 3 years ago and I just realized that somehow, despite working 80 hours weeks which included 30-hour calls every four days and some rather intensely harrowing experiences, I somehow managed to write a lot. I honestly don’t know how I did it. Now that I have more free time, I can’t seem to put two words together into a coherent thought.

Is it just aging and my worsening cynicism?

posted by Author's profile picture mahiwaga