There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
Max BrooksDo you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.
Max BrooksTag: war capitalism economics economy
They didn't break me. I broke myself.
Max BrooksTag: breaking self-destruction
But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?
Max BrooksSecrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
Max BrooksJesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares.
Max BrooksTag: manipulation government-corruption scares pharmaceutical-industry
Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.
Max BrooksYou can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
Max BrooksTag: responsibility choices-and-consequences
...¿No es eso todo lo que somos? Un cerebro que es mantenido con vida por una compleja y vulnerable máquina llamada cuerpo. El cerebro no puede seguir vivo si parte de la máquina es destruida, o por lo menos privada de algunos elementos básicos como comida y oxígeno. Esa es la única diferencia considerable entre nosotros y “los muertos vivientes.” Sus cerebros no necesitan de todo ese sistema de soporte para vivir, así que es
necesario atacar el órgano directamente...
Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.
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