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Climate change is a source of suffering for those who contributed the least & a source of enrichment for those who are most responsible. This is unacceptable. I sat down with @MelissaFleming for our “Awake at Night” podcast to discuss why leaders must take urgent #ClimateAction https://t.co/F1PPSXIc58 #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Climate change is a source of suffering for those who contributed the least & a source of enrichment for those who are most responsible. This is unacceptable. I sat down with @MelissaFleming for our “Awake at Night” podcast to discuss why leaders must take urgent #ClimateAction https://t.co/0OMqcmk42I #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

The irreconcilable misunderstanding about AI is that for some of us is the way to remove suffering, inequality, limits from the human race. For others, a tool: and, right now, the capabilities are at tool level, giving the illusion that the tool is the point. #AI #Technology #Humanity #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Disappointing and shameful move by @edsheeran to drop @macklemore from his tour because he spoke up for Palestine. With Ireland's history of oppression and suffering under colonialism, surely Ed should understand the need to stand with victims of genocide and occupation. #EdSheeran #Macklemore #Palestine #IE #PS

I apologize for the crimes and injustices of 19th-century European colonialism. Europe must face its history honestly. But colonialism cannot become a permanent political alibi for today’s BRICS governments. The suffering of the past does not justify genocide denial, corruption, https://t.co/HEvqDbHNtn #Colonialism #History #BRICS #EU #BR #RU #IN #CN

No shade, on toxic ground. Gaza is now hell on earth where people barely survive untill they "voluntarily migrate". The intentional destruction of a group through physical/psychological suffering and conditions of life calculated to destroy is genocide. https://t.co/ZMuB71f8ly #Gaza #Genocide #HumanRights #PS #GA

These images show destruction and suffering. They do not establish the responsibility of the individuals you name, nor do they justify coercing them into political action. Demanding that sanctions respect fundamental rights does not diminish the suffering of Ukrainians. Your #Ukraine #HumanRights #Sanctions #UA

The Daycare Governance Model Something sinister is lurking behind the curtain of compassion. We have told ourselves that caring for others is the highest good, but there is a pathological side to it that we refuse to acknowledge. There is a phenomenon known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It is a form of child abuse in which a caregiver—typically the mother—fabricates or induces illness in someone under her care in order to gain attention or sympathy. The mother is not indifferent to the child’s well-being, and that is the most disturbing part. She is devoted to the child. Around the clock, she visibly tends to the infant’s needs. This is depicted in *The Sixth Sense*. A young boy who can see and speak to the dead is brought to the wake of a girl named Kyra. She leads him to a box containing a videotape. The tape shows Kyra’s mother quietly lacing her daughter’s food with poison, only to play the role of a saint at her bedside for the gathered relatives—absorbing their pity and praise for how selflessly she cared for her dying daughter. The town saw a devoted mother, but the reality was manufactured sickness. We have scaled this pathology up to the level of civilization. The will to care is one of the most powerful drives in women. Properly channeled, it is deeply necessary and virtuous. But as social institutions—therapy, academia, law, NGOs, and bureaucracies—are increasingly comprised of women, this instinct is redirected from individual children, where it can be extremely beneficial, toward society at large, where it becomes disastrous. I call this the daycare governance model. It has only three roles: infants to be protected, or the oppressed; caregivers to administer care, or the dissenters. The caretaking class, or its allies, gains power and influence by managing human suffering. They are rewarded with prestige, funding, and greater authority—all of which increase in proportion to the number of victims under their care. Those incentives resemble the logic of Munchausen syndrome by proxy: increasing the number of sick people under their supervision will, in the end, produce more sick people.

I reported this to the UN in March 2024 and every day ever since, only to become the most attacked UN person ever. The tide is changing, yes. But how much blood, suffering, irreparable harm. And how much work still ahead to stop the genocidal cult and heal the wounds. #StopGenocide #HumanRights #HealTheWounds #Nospecificcountrycodeswerementionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresponseis:

UGANDA: ENOUGH BLOOD IN YOUR HISTORY. STOP ENDORSING PUTIN’S WAR. 🇺🇬 Uganda has known dictatorship, repression, civil conflict and enormous human suffering. That history should lead to one clear conclusion: Uganda should stand for peace, sovereignty and the protection of human https://t.co/NHiYFncKMG #Uganda #EndWar #HumanRights #UGA

Viewing one's own suffering as no greater than the common human lot fostered deeper emotional and social well-being. Although suffering is a universal aspect of human life, surprisingly little research has examined people’s general beliefs about suffering—its #Suffering #EmotionalWellBeing #HumanExperience #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.

❗️Μερικές φορές σταματάς για ένα σκυλί… και τελικά συναντάς ανθρώπους. ❤️🐾 ❗️Την είδα ξαπλωμένη ήσυχα σ’ ένα μικρό στενάκι, κάτω από ένα υπόστεγο. Ηλικιωμένη πια, κουρασμένη, με τα αρθριτικά της… ❗️Σταμάτησα και άρχισα να τραβάω. ❗️Και τότε, εντελώς τυχαία, πέρασε μια κυρία. Σταμάτησε, την πλησίασε, τη χάιδεψε και τη φώναξε με το όνομά της. ❗️Τη ρώτησα αν τη φροντίζει. ❗️«Ναι», μου είπε. «Η οικογένειά μου. Οι γονείς μου μένουν από πάνω και τη φροντίζουμε». ❗️Ξεκίνησαν κάποτε με μια μικρή κουβερτούλα. Και σιγά σιγά αυτό το σημείο έγινε το σπίτι της. Εκεί μένει χειμώνα–καλοκαίρι. Εκεί νιώθει ασφαλής. Εκεί υπάρχουν άνθρωποι που τη γνωρίζουν, τη φροντίζουν και τη χαϊδεύουν. ❗️Και απέναντι; Απέναντι μένει ένα άλλο, μαύρο σκυλάκι. Ο φίλος της. ❤️ ❗️Μέσα σε λίγα δευτερόλεπτα, αυτό που έμοιαζε με μια θλιμμένη εικόνα έγινε μια μικρή ιστορία ανθρωπιάς. ❗️Δεν χρειάζονται πάντα μεγάλα πράγματα. Μια κουβέρτα. Ένα πιάτο φαγητό. Λίγο νερό. Ένα χάδι. Ένας άνθρωπος που νοιάζεται. Κι ένας φίλος απέναντι… ❗️Μπράβο σ’ αυτή την οικογένεια. Μπράβο στους ανθρώπους που δεν προσπερνούν. ❗️Γιατί ο τρόπος που φερόμαστε στα πιο αδύναμα πλάσματα γύρω μας λέει πολλά για την κοινωνία που θέλουμε να είμαστε. ❗️Αν πιστεύετε ότι τέτοιες μικρές πράξεις ανθρωπιάς αξίζει να ακούγονται, μοιραστείτε αυτή την ιστορία. ❤️🐾 ❗️Sometimes you stop because of a dog… and end up discovering the kindness of people. ❤️🐾 ❗️I saw her lying quietly in a small passageway, sheltered beneath a roof. She is old now, tired, and suffering from arthritis… ❗️I stopped and started filming. ❗️And then, completely by chance, a woman walked by. She stopped, approached her, stroked her gently and called her by her name. ❗️I asked if she was the one taking care of her. ❗️“Yes,” she told me. “My family does. My parents live upstairs and we take care of her.” ❗️It all started with a small blanket. Little by little, this place became her home. She stays there winter and summer. It is where she feels safe, surrounded by people who know her, care for her and give her affection. ❗️And across the way? Another black dog lives there. Her friend. ❤️ ❗️Within a few seconds, what at first looked like a sad scene turned into a beautiful little story of humanity. ❗️It doesn’t always take something extraordinary. A blanket. A bowl of food. Some water. A gentle touch. Someone who cares. And a friend across the way… ❗️Well done to this family. And to every person who chooses not to simply walk past. ❗️Because the way we treat the most vulnerable creatures around us says a great deal about the kind of society we want to be. ❗️If you believe these small acts of kindness deserve to be seen, share this story. ❤️🐾 #AnimalLove #KindnessMatters #RespectAnimals #Dogs #Φιλοζωία #Φιλοζωία #Ανθρωπιά #Σκύλοι

The Age of Experts Is Over If the past two decades—COVID-19, the 2008 financial crisis, and the net-zero charade—have taught us anything, it is this: the age of unquestioned experts is over. Authority issued by corrupt, bloated institutions no longer commands automatic respect. We are entering an era in which trust must be earned, not assumed. Credentials matter less than results. Expertise can become conformity wrapped in a credential; status is no substitute for trustworthiness. The future belongs to those with proven track records, not merely letters after their names. Friedrich Nietzsche warned of this more than a century ago. He distrusted experts who served the spirit of their age—those who mistook consensus for courage and conformity for principle. To Nietzsche, many authorities were functionaries of the status quo: too timid to challenge the sacred assumptions of their time. University professors, state philosophers, and moral enforcers wore obedience as a badge of honor. They did not think; they repeated. They did not challenge; they conformed. They made the ordinary seem profound through jargon, complexity, and ambiguity. Nietzsche saw these not as signs of insight, but as camouflage—cowardice in disguise. He also distinguished knowledge from wisdom. Knowledge can be taught, measured, and tested. Wisdom must be earned through suffering, struggle, and brutal self-examination. Nietzsche admired those who forged their own paths rather than simply climbing institutional ladders. Even in science, he saw a danger. He respected its methods but feared their sanctification. Science, he argued, still required justification; materialists confused method with meaning and data with truth. Experts who presented science as the only path to knowledge were, in Nietzsche’s eyes, dogmatists in lab coats. So the question is no longer, “What are your qualifications?” It is: What have you done? What have you risked? What have you proved? We must recover the courage to think for ourselves—and place our confidence only in those who have earned it through action, not appointment.

Life is unsolvable contradiction. The scene with Odysseus tied to the mast and experiencing the terrible impact of the sirens on him is the greatest, ingenious artistic metaphor and it will never be surpassed. This is the personification of the relationship between men and women. The enormous danger that women represent for men. The Spanish-Jewish philosopher Gratian states that women combine in themselves all possible enemies and dangers for a man, but at the same time they give him the greatest joy, happiness and satisfaction from life. This is identical to the effect of drugs and this is a narcotic experience. Odysseus experiences all the contradictions of the effect of women. He wants to go to the sirens. They are the greatest temptation he has encountered in his life. He experiences the greatest possible mental suffering and at the same time he himself ordered that he be tied to the mast, that his fellow sailors plug their ears and in no case untie him, no matter what happens. Therefore, Ulysses is the first and at the same time the greatest work, which will never be surpassed in artistic mastery and ingenious depiction of life.

The Pathology Behind Compassion Something sinister can lurk behind compassion. Caring for others is noble, but when institutions are rewarded not for reducing suffering—only for managing it—care can become pathological. Munchausen syndrome by proxy shows the logic: a caregiver fabricates or induces illness in someone dependent on them to gain sympathy and attention. The caregiver looks devoted; the “sickness” is manufactured. In that sense, devotion can hide control. I call this the Daycare Governance model: society splits into infants to be protected (oppressed), caregivers who provide protection (allies), and predators to be removed (dissenters). Caretakers gain prestige, funding, and moral authority by managing suffering. Many may believe sincerely, yet incentives can overpower intentions—if status and resources grow with the number of “vulnerable” people, the system has reason to expand the victim class. It does so via concept creep (“trauma” broadens until ordinary difficulty counts), and by creating the perpetual patient, where normal sadness becomes pathology and struggle is rebranded as dysfunction. Care institutions and “victims” then reinforce each other. Dependency costs competence. True care prepares people to stand alone; pathological care keeps them dependent. Endless expansion of victimhood risks producing more dependency. We call it compassion—but compassion without boundaries can become control.

Daycare Governance and the Tyranny of Compassion Something sinister can hide behind compassion. Caring is virtuous, but it becomes pathological when institutions gain power by expanding the number of people who need care. Munchausen syndrome by proxy shows how: a caregiver fabricates or induces illness in a dependent person, then gains sympathy by performing devotion. The sickness is manufactured, but the care is real. The claim: modern society can scale this into governance. Call it the daycare governance model: (1) victims to protect, (2) caregivers to provide protection, (3) dissenters to remove. Health, therapy, NGOs, academia, media, and bureaucracy gain prestige, funding, and moral authority by managing ever-expanding categories of suffering. It unfolds in two stages. First, the victim class expands: “trauma” drifts from specific, severe harms to everyday experiences, lowering the threshold for suffering until demand is nearly limitless. Second, the perpetual patient forms: ordinary difficulties are medicalized—strength as toxicity, sadness as disorder, restlessness as pathology—creating a cycle where caretakers and victims gain status or protection. This drives a crisis of competence. Victimhood can shield accountability, and institutions are rewarded for treating problems rather than eliminating the need for themselves. Plato warned against doing for people what they can do for themselves: removing every burden removes the reason to grow stronger. True care aims to make itself unnecessary. That’s the difference between a good mother and a poisoning one: one allows appropriate hardship to build independence; the other denies it. Failing to distinguish these forms of care makes the pathology hard to recognize—and easy to applaud.

The Psychology Behind Political Violence Political life carries an appetite for violence beneath the surface. A shooter leaves a manifesto; supporters celebrate; online strangers justify killing over insults, misgendering, and fantasies of execution. We’re told these are separate phenomena—different ideologies, grievances, causes—but they’re deeply connected. The murderer, the celebrant, and the online fantasist share one conviction: blood will build a better world. We often assume ideology comes first, violence second—radicalization infecting an otherwise ordinary person. But corrupted people may seek ideologies that rationalize what they already want to believe. Feeling comes first; philosophy follows. Nietzsche called this *ressentiment*: not ordinary anger, but enduring resentment rooted in surrendered agency and perpetual victimhood. Ressentiment is creative: it turns grievance into virtue and revenge into justice. That’s why movements can sound humanitarian while obsessing over enemies. They promise liberation but focus on who must be eliminated; they call violence self-defense while celebrating destruction. Notice the imbalance: energy goes to identifying who deserves punishment, not to explaining how their better society would work. This is the difference between genuine grievance and pathological ressentiment. Genuine grievance seeks repair; ressentiment seeks subtraction. Its “solutions” are fantasies of punishment—heads cut off, privilege liquidated, wrong pronouns punished. These aren’t coherent doctrines of stability; they’re rationalizations for resentment. Ressentiment also despises self-improvement because it requires admitting agency. Its worldview depends on locating suffering outside oneself. The deepest enemy of these movements, then, is not any specific ideology. It is agency itself.

The Victimhood Economy: Why Young People Prefer Socialism Western civilization is increasingly shaped by entitlement and a culture that rewards displays of victimhood. At elite universities, disability claims have risen: 18% of male and 22% of female undergraduates report a disability, and 54% of non-binary students, with higher rates at some wealthy schools than at community colleges. The issue isn’t genuine disability; it’s what happens when accommodations become status and advantage. Extra time, separate housing, and exemptions can turn diagnosis into leverage. When weakness is rewarded, some will learn to perform it. This matters because today’s students become tomorrow’s institutional elites. If grievance produces rewards, the lesson may spread into journalism, government, HR, academia, and business, letting beneficiaries inherit the power to expand the system. Research on victimhood signaling raises uncomfortable questions: people who habitually emphasize victim status, on average, show higher narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—not to say genuinely suffering people are manipulative, but that systems rewarding victimhood create incentives for manipulators to exploit the category. Rob Henderson describes this as a status game: in elite institutions, grievance can become the currency of virtue signaling. For some, the rational strategy is to manufacture grievance and convert it into status. Nietzsche similarly argued that displays of helplessness can become covert power, while pity can create moral superiority for the caregiver. The danger isn’t compassion; it’s a culture that turns suffering into currency and teaches ambitious people that the easiest route to power is to claim they are powerless.