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The show “Alice in Borderland” is the best piece of philosophy that I have seen in some time. In it, people are transported into a dystopian version of Tokyo in which they must compete in games of survival. If you have watched “Planet Earth,” then you too have a sense of how nature is more like “Alice in Borderland” than our own conception of reality in which we romanticize the beauty of nature (and it is stunningly beautiful) but tend to sanitize from our sensibilities the brutality and unpredictability of nature. In nature, a deer lies down to sleep. Hungry

All religions seem a rather unsatisfying starting point for religion: before I wonder if I need a god for salvation, I’d like to know if I need a god for existence.

By definition, the average person is not extraordinary. And yet, paradoxically, the surest path to becoming extraordinary is to be what people would assume to be ordinary. It is only because most people do not do what is expected of all people that, if you do what is expected, you will be extraordinary and viewed as such by other people. All of the following are obvious, but, what is not obvious to most people, is that doing the following will make them extraordinary. Be Prompt with Communication People are emotional. Very, very, very, very emotional. Not some people. All people.