The stakes in CONFLICT do not CHANGE. BATTLE determines who will control the wealth or its EQUIVALENT.
Read MoreThere is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the MONTH - I've no idea if the transit of the moon determines precisely when - FANS of DESIGNER skateboards queue from early evening in order - well in order, I PRESUME - to be among the first to jump on a skateboard when the shop OPENS in the morning.
Read MoreWell, marriage doesn't FUNCTION in the WAY it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, RIGHT now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in NEW York - it shows what a potent idea marriage REMAINS for people.
Read MoreThe awareness that health is DEPENDENT upon habits that we control makes us the first GENERATION in history that to a large EXTENT determines its own destiny.
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