Hitler and Nietzche

Hilarious.

Democracy

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear." -Alan Corenk

Good Days

Today has been a great day. The only thing I've done all day is sit around with people I love watching college football. Bama played at 11:30 this morning, and Ellen and I met Cara and Blake at Blake's apartment at 10:45. We made pancakes, bacon, eggs, sausage balls, and biscuits. All was ready just in time to enjoy it as the game began. Bama won. We cheered. We laughed. We enjoyed each other.

Those are my kind of days.

Society

In a recent column, David Brooks said the following: "..individualist description of human nature seems to be wrong. Over the past 30 years, there has been a tide of research in many fields, all underlining one old truth — that we are intensely social creatures, deeply interconnected with one another and the idea of the lone individual rationally and willfully steering his own life course is often an illusion."

We need each other. And yet, sometimes it's so easy to feel like it's just you against the world, yearning and struggling alone in order to navigate the often cloudy landscape of social networks.

I suck at it.