The future cannot be…
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. [We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.] It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. – Dennis Gabor [Gábor Dénes] (1900… More »





![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)

![IMAGE: To preach to deaf ears. [To pray to deaf ears.] / A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. / In at one ear and out at the other.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/horse-1330690_640-100x66.jpg)


![IMAGE: Do not pass judgment, that you may not be judged; for the way you judge you will be judged and with what yardstick you measure you will be measured. But why notice the splinter in your brother's eye without taking notice of the beam in your own eye? [Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sculpture-3408348_640-100x66.jpg)
