Here’s a sampling of more stuff from Ran Prieur articles that strikes me:

From J.R.R. Tolkien: The man who saw tomorrow:

“Will there be magic? Of course! The only recorded belief system that doesn’t accept anything like magic is the Cartesian mechanistic paradigm, in which everything is a lifeless object and the scream of a tortured animal is no different from a bell ringing on a machine. This metaphysics is insane and actively stupid from every perspective but its own. But because most of us are still inside this perspective, it’s hard for us to imagine what ‘magic’ will be like. All I’ll say is that, in every belief system that is not symbiotic with a nightmare death society, matter is a feature of mind and not vice versa.”

From “How to Drop Out“:

To drop out is to become who you are. Do not feel guilty about using strengths and advantages that others do not have. That guilt is a holdover from the world of selfish competition, where your “success” means the failure or deprivation of someone else. In the dropout universe, your freedom feeds the freedom of others — it’s as if we’ve all been tied up, and the most agile and loosely tied people get out first, and then help the rest.

Anyway, cool.