Padraic O’Reilly
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Some lovely thoughts and reflections about what it means to be human today - "an experience of living that’s jarring, thrilling, and worrying (...) and celebrating that many of our most banal daily experiences are unique, impossible for all humans who came before us"
I wrote about all the lived experiences and strange structures of modern society — many of which we take for granted — that were literally impossible for all previous generations of Homo sapiens. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-are-dif...
We are different from all other humans in history
Countless experiences that have become routine for us are unprecedented in the history of our species. Here's why that matters.
www.forkingpaths.co
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Some lovely thoughts and reflections about what it means to be human today - "an experience of living that’s jarring, thrilling, and worrying (...) and celebrating that many of our most banal daily experiences are unique, impossible for all humans who came before us"
Reposted by Padraic O’Reilly
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
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If Trump was President in 1940
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If Trump was President in 1940
December 18, 2024 at 7:47 AM
December 18, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless.
But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.
But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.
When we were children, we were taught that no matter how you reached, no matter much wealth and power you accumulated, you were not above the law.
We can no longer teach our children that.
And that's really fucking tragic.
We can no longer teach our children that.
And that's really fucking tragic.
November 24, 2024 at 9:57 AM
When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless.
But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.
But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.