Hindsight

We should’ve expected this from a site that is called the front page of the internet, anything with that much traffic is going to be targeted to be taken advantage of…

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." - Potter Stewart

Is it even a philosophical questions episode if I don’t somehow talk about existential space stuff and stumble over my words trying to verbalize concepts that I can’t comprehend?

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

The difference only between persuasion and manipulation is intent…

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." - Javier Bardem

When it comes to movies about musicians or music in general, they always feel so pretentious in my opinion, and then there’s Whiplash. Whiplash is the exception, and oh boy it’s a really great exception!

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

The Taliban deep dive now comes to a close wrapping up all of the history and actions that led the country to be where it is today. There are no meaningless events in the world, it’s just that sometimes the consequences of our actions don’t catch up to us immediately…

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." - Alexis de Tocqueville

As someone who has a pretty big obsession with time and time travel and all of that stuff, you would think that a movie like this would be right up my alley, it’s got time travel, it’s got action, it’s got humor. But man, this was not what I expected…

"When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment." - Ryan Reynolds

The journey of self-improvement is one that many people don’t take although many should but, it’s also one that never ends until the day we die. On the other hand, the journey of re-socialization is one that most of us are having to go on now as we begin to assimilate back into regular society after only having to deal with people online…

"Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection." - Kim Collins

There is nothing worse than lazy journalism being passed off as quality journalism and then even worse, we as the consumer let it slide…

"Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive." - Toomas Hendrik Ilves

So I’m assuming that an extraterrestrial life form coming to Earth would be in the most literal term an illegal alien, and with that logic, I would assume that they would be treated the same way that most countries treat immigrants which is usually as less than a regular citizen although in this case, it would probably be even worse because I don’t think constitutional rights extend to intergalactic aliens, or maybe they do, I wasn’t there when they wrote it…

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

In typical Johnny K fashion, I take a normal conversation about a random thing and turn it into a philosophical conversation about what it means to be human whilst giving myself an existential crisis. I love being me!

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus