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

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

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

Zuckerberg has followed Trump and Musk in eliminating fact-checking on Facebook in favor of “community moderating.”

As a form of tribalism, the way was paved for this in part by the displacement of rationality as a form of Western oppression. It’s not. It’s rationality. (Zuckerberg probably soaked it up at Harvard, in part from or because of the presence of people like me – all earnest to do good and to … More Zuckerberg has followed Trump and Musk in eliminating fact-checking on Facebook in favor of “community moderating.”