Secure in my authenticity I thought I’d avoided that trap which had ensnared so many of my g… the safety of ironic distance– until I realized that

You’ll know you’re but a prop In someone else’s mise en scene When, after the photo op And the choir’s said amen You’re left to close up shop

But you will always get a second chance to make a false impression

Materialism is no way out of Cartesian dualism It just turns backwards– I am, therefore I think– in an infinite regress

Bureaucracy’s biggest sin Is malingering as democracy– Bureaucracy sees the will of the p… As a form of madness But pretends to follow the will of…

I spent most of my life naively believing that people mean what they say Then I came to understand that even when people don’t mean what t…

The two-week lockdown To bend the curve Turned into a year-and-a-half That bent our minds When

I am simultaneously purging while binge watching TV on my Gal… by ignoring my wife and kids

Time tells a story and linear time is a plot device we’ve made up, call it a time machine, to advance the plot

Unsatisfied with natural consequen… human beings concocted perverse in… which is to say where once we were mere mortals now we are self-defeating

Contemporary pacifism attempts to… One full fathom deep But repression is just short for The return of the repressed So, you can tell a modern pacifist…

If husbands were like pro basketball players I’d be an all star but one with an exceptionally low trade value

Did we stop playing the long game because it is the wrong game or is it only the wrong game because we’ve long since stopped p… Or is asking that question more of…

I thought my alarm clock woke me up each day but the day I realized it had always been a false alarm was the day I realized

There was a time when fools managed perceptions in order to manage reality, realists managed perceptions because they couldn’t manage reali…