Thoughts

This is gonna be pretty scattershot, but I need a place to jot down ideas and thoughts I have overtime. If any of these interest you, you might dig my blog entries tagged "life".

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Were the immigrants that came here extra bold and industrious, or did the free-for-all nature of the USA make them that way?

Was the OK Corral really all that violent? More so than Compton?

Art and architecture are a civilization's signature

You don't have to be perfect to be good.

You become what you attack.

We've been liberated from myths, but also from dreams.

There's a difference between:
  • a breakdown vs. a breakthrough
  • hope vs. expectation
  • admiration vs. pity
  • fair vs. just
  • patience vs. weakness
Dangerous waters, but genes plays a bigger part than environment.

Decentralized vs. centralized: software, government, company men vs. common man; freedom of choice vs. the tyranny of choice; safe and easy vs. free and tough