Given the current nostalgia for shared reality we shouldn’t forget that peak shared reality was mutually assured destruction
American Express changed its slog… “Don’t leave home without it” to “Don’t live life without it” in acknowledgement that
A mid-life crisis happens when you realize that life is a treadmill which keeps speeding up until you fall off
Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment
In ancient times the scribe produced holy texts through which you encountered the sacred Today, the coder makes hypertexts through which
This ain’t culture war– it’s one cult in action with two rival factions
Trump’s genius is his nothingness which allows him to be everything e.g., He’s America’s inside joke (American democracy was a joke lon…
Instead of dismantling oppression we dismantled the printing press inaugurating the Information Age when no news is good news all information is disinformation
Denial leaves a vacuum that is ever filled by wishful thinking
You know the (re)normalization of… is in full swing when the New Yor… justifies its publication of a cro… in the shape of a swastika on the start date of Chanukah
Hell is having infinite wishes but using them all to wish for infinite wishes Heaven is having infinite wishes but only needing
When people meet me they typically think I’m a sensitive guy but later they realize I’m a time sensitive guy
Late capitalism compensated for it… by blending it into its own propri… No one can redeem the past But everyone can redeem coupons!
I’ve always been more interested in who wrote the book of self-love
We hit it off: she’d declawed her cats and I’d plucked my cacti’s needles