Orts #924

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.

Aristocrats take it for granted that a lot of people will always go to waste. But they keep silent about it; they live sheltered lives pretending that all these many, many people simply do not exist. That is what is ungodly about the superior status of the aristocrats; in order to be comfortable themselves they do not even call attention to anything.

     -- both, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
 

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almost all wasabi is fake!
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/585172/wasabi-fake/
a lovely short video
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Scientists plan to replace the street lights in Chengdu [China]—more than fifteen times the size of N.Y.C.—with an artificial moon.     https://bit.ly/2IkUGFd

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Those of you who liked the idea of compressing 4.5 billion years into one in last week's Orts will find more detailed information here:
http://westviewnews.org/2019/02/life-on-earth-in-perspective/