Sometimes travel can show you how easy things can be.

Sometimes travel can show you how easy things can be.

It’s easy to complain about what you don’t want. It’s much harder to say what you do want. And even harder to be able to say how you will know that you are getting what you want.
But if you want to avoid frustration, confusion, and disappointment, tell people what you want and tell them how you will know when you have it.

People want jobs rather than handouts. People have their pride. The problem is that machines are slowly but relentlessly getting better at many of the tasks that make up jobs. And neither of the two big American political parties seems to know what to do.

Sometimes the modern obsession with personal growth can get in the way of relationships. (Thank you to my friend Bob for the idea for this comic.)

Most people don’t want to make changes to their lifestyle, so are relying on science to fix global warming. Yet they don’t trust science on other issues.

Some people don’t want to live by the rules of the State, and would perhaps prefer that the government didn’t exist.

There are various human qualities that can be thought of as superpowers.

Based on current estimates of the amount of matter in the universe, the scientific consensus is that the universe will expand forever. But if our estimates change, it may turn out that the universe expands, contracts, expands, and so on.

Why do we choose to punish people by putting them in prison, at great expense to the taxpayer?

According to Buddhism there is no fixed self you can point to and say “this is me”.
