1 Yesterday 21 people were killed in an attack by a lone gunman at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The 18-year-old gunman was killed by police. Why tragedies like this happen again and again in the United States? Buffalo, Laguna Woods, Sandy hook, Santa Fe High, El Paso, and so many others. March 13, 1996. 26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killed 16 kids and a teacher. The UK government responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. Since then there has been a total of zero school shootings in the UK. ...

Kant has four big questions for philosophy. What can I know? How should I act? For what can I hope? What is the human being? This writing has something to do with Kant’s last question. In the book of “Last Chance to See”, Douglas Adams told an anecdote about the Golden Pavilion Temple in Kyoto. “I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time sicne it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century.” ...

“Moral worth should be judged not in terms of the naturalness of a trait, but rather in terms of how that trait impacts the wellbeing of everyone affected by it. Thus, violence is natural but bad, medicine unnatural but good.” – Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape that Understood the Universe 道德与否不应该以某一属性是否自然为依据，而是应该以该属性是否会影响所有人的福祉为据。正因为如此，暴力是自然的却是不对的，医药是非自然的却是好的。

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” This is the first line of Paul Ehrlich’s book ‘The Population Bomb’, published in 1968. The book sold millions of copies and was taken very seriously. The Malthus’s prediction of what is now called Malthusian trap. That is more an observation of the cyclical patterns of population boom and bust that had happened for most of human existence. The the industrial revolution changed things at some great costs. ...

今天的法国总统马克龙和德国总理舒尔茨很像1938年二战之前的英国首相张伯伦和法国总理达拉第，慕尼黑协定将捷克的苏台德割让给德国并没有带来一厢情愿的和平，只是揭开了二战的序幕。 “尽管试着将这种方式称为谈判，但绥靖的味道却难也遮掩。1938年张伯伦和达拉第去慕尼黑见希特勒的教训依然适用：给独裁者想要的并不能阻止他要求更多；那只能让他相信你不够强大，以致不能阻挡他得到他想要的。否则，顺着独裁者的思路，你早在事情伊始之时就该站起来抵抗。“ 国际象棋大师@Kasparov63 在2014年写了这本书《Winter is coming》，正是俄罗斯入侵乌克兰并强占克里米亚之后。

汉娜阿伦特是德国出生的美国政治哲学家。受幸运女神的眷恋，在海德堡大学师从雅士培、海德格尔，国会纵火案后迅速离开纳粹德国，又从法国的隔离营逃脱，后来得到赴美签证离开欧洲。1941年5月22日，当她到达美国时，口袋里只有25美元，不会英语（德语是其母语），35岁，而她的重要作品还没有一部问世。 最近看到了Samantha Rose Hill的一条推文，才重新捡起了汉娜阿伦特的书，一发不可收拾，因为这次看进去了，也似乎看明白了。试着写下来，stop-think，停下来想想，看看自己是不是真得想清楚了。 阿伦特对孤独有独到的见解，隔离不是真正的孤独，不去与他人交流，不去行动才是真正的孤独。 她对如何思考也很特别。她说，思考就是一个人和自己的对话，而思考的主题是什么呢？个人的经验。正是因为有了对世界的体验，我们才会有困惑才会发现问题，才会试着解决问题。而理解这个世界，是阿伦特的最爱。如果说阿伦特是哲学家，那么她的哲学与以往的哲学家颇有不同，她不愿属于任何一个理论框架。相反，她的哲学是基于个人体验，是从下到上，是接地气的，而不是形而上的虚无缥缈。如果你也想理解这个世界，不妨试着读下阿伦特。 阿伦特自己是难民，从离开德国之后就无国籍了十多年，直到后来加入美国籍。所以她对无根的漂泊感受特别深。她还专门写过一篇文章，题目就是《我们这些难民》。作为一个移民，从漂泊时的思念到定居后难以融入再到四海为家，人之所在心之所安，这样的过程会让你更加爱读阿伦特。 阿伦特有本书叫《黑暗时代的人们》，她那时的背景当然是二战。而现在新冠疫情还没有结束、俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的仗也似乎没有到头，世界各国在印钱之后面临高通胀面临衰退的压力，前些时候美国高院泄漏出来或许会推翻反禁止堕胎的判例更是让人担心，这或许是我们自己的黑暗时代。也正因为如此，阿伦特的书更值得一读，也让人更有共鸣。 我爱读阿伦特，她试着理解她的世界，顺着她的思路，她其实是指引你思考的方法。思考不是要达致一个结论，思考是个永不停止的过程。在忙碌的生活中，我们或许需要时不时停下脚步，问问自己是否走在自己想走的路上，问问自己这世界究竟有什么改变，想想如何努力地去爱自己去爱家人，去爱这个并不完美的世界。去读读阿伦特吧。

老中医思维就是想当然，不讲逻辑，不看证据，胡乱禁忌，抱残守缺。

At a night with stars, you and I, may see a similar sky. At a day with sunshine, you and I, may see a different city. I am not sure what your city is. My city is so small and it has three grocery stores, two clinics, one children hospital, four schools, one library, two gas stations, a few parks and a river. Three remote cities still in my memory. Plus a few colleagues and friends. These are all of my city. These are my vorld for now. ...

The leaked draft from the Court is a regression. Hope Amecian people will shoot it down. Nobody has the right to use your body against your will, event to save your life, or the life of another person. That’s it. That’s the argument. You cannot be forced to donate blood, or marrow, or organs, even though thousands die every year on waiting lists. They cannot even harvest your organs after your death without your explicit, written, pre-mortem permission. ...

vorld Vorld is a personal world. V is just a half of W. In your time, the people you have met, the places you have been, the things you have done, these are your vorld. Just a small part of the world. desire Lacan has a famous dictum, man’s desire is the desire of the Other. What you want, in the end, is a construct by the vorld from the world. After a chain of choice, you build your desire up. ...