Given the reality of time, and therefore change, as a foundational principle of existence, one of the fundamental human issues is faith – in the continuity of identity through change, perhaps in the goodness of identity, or change as progress towards something better, or in existence as nurturing toward humanness, etc

February 20, 2025

Whatever the experience, of primary psychological importance is whether it ends with a feeling of satisfaction – as a thing in itself, independent of dynamics like achievement, fulfillment of goal or expectation, pride, pleasure, satiation, fullness, etc

February 11, 2025

Satisfaction is what closes off regret, shame, aloneness, shoulda, self-analysis, self-centeredness

Gaza might become Trump’s obsession, his chance at real world-shaping glory, at really building for the ages – like Rome, or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Taj Mahal, or the Pyramids

February 11, 2025

Including creating a permanent place for the Palestinians somewhere else, since he’s a magnanimous and caring king They say it’s never been done