By Matthew Hayward In our daily commutes, we often encounter endless red lights, bringing us to a crossroads of practicality and strict adherence to traffic laws. It's a familiar scenario: a red light that tests our patience more than it ensures our safety. This pondering was further sparked by an article in the News Tribune about the complexities of traffic light laws, leading me to contemplate the balance between logical decision-making and lawful obedience. Picture this: you're at a three-way intersection that's missing a crucial element—a turn lane. Here, the traffic lights orchestrate a perplexing situation that defies common sense. You're driving south, intent on continuing straight, but as the northbound traffic receives a green light, you find yourself halted by a red signal that serves no apparent purpose. Despite the clear path ahead, the traffic system doesn't recognize your intention to go straight. It lumps you in with those who might turn, unnecessari...

 What if I told you that everything you experience in your daily life is merely a part of a highly advanced video game? What if our reality is just a simulation created by an advanced civilization for entertainment? This idea may sound far-fetched, but it's not as impossible as you might think. The simulation theory suggests that an advanced civilization could create a virtual reality that is so realistic it's impossible to distinguish between what is real and what is not. If that's the case, there could be countless simulations running simultaneously, and we could be a part of one. But why would an advanced civilization create a simulation of our reality? The answer is simple: entertainment. In the future, it's not hard to imagine that virtual reality and video games will be more immersive and realistic than ever before. Perhaps we are all players in a highly advanced game where our choices and actions affect the outcome. In this scenario, our lives would be no differe...

While listening to Chris Hedges, author of Death of the Liberal Class, I could not help but agree that education in America is "vocational training for drones." As I read through the comment section, I came across a person talking about the innateness of human greed: The comments were from user: @bapyou and read as follows: ““"human beings are naturally selfish" There is no evidence that this is the case. Our capitalist economy teaches selfishness as a virtue -- the main component of the 3rd rate philosopher Ayn Rand, a woman whom every conservative nutcase on the planet worships as a goddess. In fact, there is far more evidence that the opposite is true. Human beings are not naturally selfish: capitalists wish we were, & so spend ungodly amounts of money convincing us that it is the case.” I agree that human beings are not entirely innately selfish. Once we have attained what we need to survive, the rest is dependent on our environment and intellectual and...