Map To The Future

James Baldwin said this to a room full of teachers in 1963. We'd like to know how many schools today would say that's what they're aiming for, because a kid who can think for himself is harder to manage.

Aldous Huxley wrote this in 1936, just before the world found out how far that could go. We try to keep it in mind whenever a headline seems built to make us hate our neighbors.

Oscar Wilde wrote this in 1891, long before anyone had an anonymous account. Spend ten minutes in any comment section and you'll see he was onto something about what people say once nobody knows who they are.

Terence McKenna said this in a talk back in 1998 and we think it holds up. We have more wealth and know more about medicine than any generation before us, and we still keep handing the wheel to people we wouldn't trust to run a small business.

Most young men find out around 18 that nobody is coming to carry them. A lot of women don't hit that until their 30s. We think that gap explains a lot about how each sees the world, and how each votes.

You won't find peace by making peace with what's destroying you. Name it. Then go to war with it.

Most people don't want the truth. They want certainty. That's why the simple lie usually beats the complicated truth. Do your own homework.

Power doesn't go to the strongest. It goes to whoever understands fear, desire and timing. If you don't learn how it works, it'll be used on you.

A man who tried and failed has something the man who never tried doesn't. He knows what he's made of. Go try the thing.

Your rights depend on your own conduct. Not on what some criminal did last week. A free people doesn't hand over its liberty every time the lawless act up.

@meathead_prof told us sitting is the new smoking. He's a former pro athlete who sits eight hours a day if he doesn't force himself up, and his hips and low back have gotten tight from it. So he keeps a kettlebell in his office now and does a few swings every hour. In his words, it's nobody's fault but his, so he's changing it. How long have you been sitting today?

Elie Wiesel said this in Oslo when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and we keep coming back to it. Staying quiet can feel like the safe choice, but the people being hurt never get to experience it that way.