Book: The vaccine Idiocracy. Page 2

There are no other contracts in this world than a contract based on love and honor. And there can be no other treaties, because everything else is fleeting. Everything else collapses easily.

In order to win a war, you must not think about whether you are good or bad as a general. To win a war, you have to think specifically about military action.

Happiness is available only from a certain level of sincerity with oneself. From that minimum level of honesty when you can already fill the world with pleasure.

It is better to solve things by 110%, and then come back and change your decisions, than not to solve anything and remain in limbo: "but I still have to decide ...".

Every day, every minute.

These are the people who surround you. This is the future that you are building.

People feel devastated and superfluous in this world because they are not involved in the world and do not build peace.
You will always be superfluous in a world to which you do not put your hands.

Honor and honesty are not just the same roots. When you are honest, only then you have strength, and only then will there be honor. When you are a small self-justifying nonentity, no one will ever take you seriously, and all your words, no matter how correct they are, they will always be husks.

The UN and UNESCO classify cultural monuments as the heritage of mankind. Not the property of any one nation, one country, one continent. No - as a heritage of mankind.
I am in support of Genghis Khan, or Rolf pedestrian, or Ragnar Leather pants, or Cortez, or any other such figure - they were the property of neither the Spaniards, nor the Mongols, the Norwegians. And the heritage of mankind.
Because it's like the question "who are the best warriors in Genghis Khan's army?" - yes, those who fight well. All.
And Cortez, and Genghis Khan, and Gandhi are the same - all these are personalities. What makes them so - their nationality? That Gandhi is Indian and Cortez is Spanish? - Nope. What they do is that they are Gandhi and Cortez. Just like that.
Therefore, they are like Angkor - Wat, like magnificent multi-meter Buddhas carved from stone, like things from ancient Roman or ancient Greek heritage, like Karnak, like Baalbek. Is it all Greek, Roman, Syrian heritage? - It's a human heritage.
This is not Genghis Khan, who belongs only to the Mongols or Kazakhs, or even only to the Genghisids.
No, Genghis Khan is a universal human heritage. Like Louis 14, like Nero, oddly enough.
I believe that this is what gives our civilization a chance to remain a civilization of people, not pithecanthropes.
And this is a small but very important change in my head. The little switch is , "And we're all human and we have a common heritage."
Here's this change in the head - either humanity makes it, or it goes to (as Carl, the hero of "Trinkets" from the 13th century would say) on the horned one.
And then they will fight each other like in the Stone Age. Thinking:
"What are these strange things so flat? But nothing, if you hit this angle of this strange flat black crap, so you can kill"
That's how people will use iPads.
And not in 1000 years, but in a hundred or two. So we're either making this change in consciousness or it's a grave. And nothing better then, except for this, such an angry, petty, tiny, grumpy humanity is not worthy.
Let's end on a nice note. Total:
Thinking in countries is not something that, last century, this is the century before last. When you have 7 billion, you need a different mindset. You need to think:
"We are all human. And anyone can be whatever they want. You can be born in Japan and fall in love with Norwegian culture and yes, play Vikings. You can be born in Norway and fall in love with Angkor Wat. And it's great to dance these complex Khmer dances better than people who were born in Cambodia. Therefore, let everyone be everything they want to be and everything they love.
And any great personalities, any great buildings - the property of each of us as long as we are people, not worms. "

When you do not make the choice to be happy - to generate happiness in yourself, to interact with the world, to build a future for yourself, then you are left with only self-pity and all-age frustration.

Basically, almost every successful person becomes successful in spite of their parents.

Happiness, ladies and gentlemen, is not an easy thing. It doesn't fall on you from the sky. It's a discipline. This is the ability to clean out the feces of their fears, turning on themselves. It's the ability to understand yourself.

One of the reasons of human warfare is fear. This "I'm scared of you". Xenophobia.
And this is a very cool show of a chimpanzee. That is, chimpanzees will fight to destroy each other, even when they have a lot of resources and a lot of food, simply because they are afraid of each other. Because it's two different tribe, who can each other to misunderstand. And this one misunderstanding, the General need to take and understand, including the brain, to understand someone else, is such a horror, such aggression that they would rather each other to rape and devour, you make this extra effort as something in each other to understand.
And if humanity has managed to differ from other apes, it is due to the fact that some strange mutation, random mutation, random combination of chemical elements in the blood on certain days of human monkeys were able to be to each other a little less aggressive than chimpanzees.

Stupidity is the most contagious disease worse than the plague and worse than the coronavirus. There is no more terrible disease than human stupidity.