The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
My corner of the internet may be infinitesimally small Not even a grain in a brick in the wall Yet still I’m a part
Even when religion is about the symbolic it must guard against fundamentalism But when religion
The faceless horde finds strength in numbers by losing themselves in the crowd But when your numbers are small
I’ve been running the numbers and the running joke that we’re running the show will keep everyone running in plac… until they all start running for t…
Instead of the invisible hand bending self-interest towards the collective good we got the risible glad-hand laughing our selfishness off
The first half of life: Did I say that? The second half of life: I did say that The end of life:
Haunted by conflicted feelings in… my therapist and I finally traced… when I preferred Pepsi to Coke and McDonald’s to Burger King but B.K. served Pepsi
Learning how to walk is learning how to fall forward while remembering to catch yoursel… again and again Walking is the illusion
The critique of pure reason should have been that rational thought is impossible unless paired effectively with fee… As AI reaches escape velocity
Raised with reverse psychology– Love your enemy– It was only once The world was turned upside down That I saw things as they really…
Life itself is depthless As in shallow and superficial Life and death are depthless As in unfathomably deep
People can’t really love their ene… but they sure can love the enemy of their enemy which actually gets them awful clo… to universal love anyway
Now that mindfulness is the official state religion the attention economy will be centrally planned
Freedom looks like Total autonomy When really, it’s The deepest connection
