In no particular order

The Human Condition

• There is no objective knowledge. While there does appear to be a reality independent of the human mind, it is therefore beyond our comprehension. "Reality" as we understand is mind-dependent, conditioned by human thinking to make sense in human terms. All knowledge of the world, therefore, is subjective because it comes from a human being, who can only ever represent a subjective perspective. Whether objective truth exists or not, it is impossible for a human being to know that truth. Knowledge therefore cannot be unified into a total whole, because we cannot see through all perspectives at once.
• Man is imperfect and imperfectible. The human condition is one of constant adaptation to changing circumstances, not creating permanent states of ideal being. Even if evil could be overcome, ignorance and misunderstanding could not; our world does not revolve around us; there is no good without the bad and vice versa; nothing, good or bad, lasts forever. Man cannot achieve ultimate reconciliation, everlasting triumph, or final judgment; humans cannot put all things in order, because our "order" and "chaos" are projections of our prejudices onto a universe indifferent to us.
• Man is a rational, and irrational, and nonrational animal. Science suggests that reason evolved as a faculty because it provided us with an evolutionary advantage in the ability to understand connections between the world, but that does not mean it is perfect. Humans are as prone to use rationality as we are to abuse it, which is irrationality or magical thinking. Too much faith in reason is itself irrational, because reason might not have an essential relationship to truth. And the nonrational nature of the human mind deserves no less respect than the rational nature.
• Man is a technological animal. In the most ancient civilizations, scribes drew in clay as a form of prosthetic memory; farmers and herders domesticating plants and animals as artificial sources of food and transportation; kings organized other humans into cities to administrate production. The first cyborg was the first hominid who used stone tools; the first Singularity was the control of fire. In man, natural and artificial are one and the same. Our technology, our means of mastering the world around us, exists on a continuum and simply becomes more sophisticated over time.
• Man is an ideological animal. Human beings find themselves, according to our most advanced science, in an indifferent universe, the product of an impersonal evolutionary process that created human intelligence and personality on accident, the one spark of self-awareness — but cannot accept this. Humans create religions, philosophies, and all kind of ideologies to organize their own minds, their thoughts and emotions. In this, human beings create meaning out of nothing because we cannot live without meaning. Ideology, then, is a kind of technology, as indispensible as fire. You are not immune to propaganda.

The Postmodern Condition

• Memes are folk art. The moderns feared that the rise of mass society would put an end to folk culture and popular self-expression, but the internet has liberated the creative energies of the whole world. In the endless churn of the online, all information are interpreted and re-interpreted in an unending battle for memetic dominance, reflecting the genuine ideas and preferences of ordinary people.