With Great Blessings Come Great Challenges

The most important lesson of the age of abundance is that unprecedented wealth goes together with unprecedented ingratitude. The most important lesson of the age of mobility is that unprecedented opportunity goes together with unprecedented idleness. The most important lesson of the age of information is that unprecedented access to knowledge goes together with unprecedented exposure to stupidity. And the most important lesson of the age of comfort is that nothing is as uncomfortable as comfort seen as the ultimate goal.

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“You are what you value. I value: individual liberty, economic common sense, logical rigour, clarity of thought, intellectual integrity and quiet charity.”