In our western culture you shan’t take pride in the power you’ve cultivated over the Other so you have to convince yourself
Ours is a culture of low tolerance masquerading as a culture of low risk tolerance
Life can seem meaningless But I’ve found that Meaning is never lifeless
It’s come to my attention that My attention span is limited By what I want to see And like most people these days I don’t know what I want
The reason every man has his price is because he always fails to real… 1. that he can never get what he w… 2. this makes his desire priceless
We think of death As the worst-case scenario But what if In the best-case scenario Death is the answer to a question?
Because we know we must die and that survival depends on belonging we all live in fear
I brought a wife To a gun fight Don’t worry You haven’t met my wife
Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble
God knows that the only thing you can give the man who has everything is another chance
It used to be that We could feed our souls By serving others Or feed our egos By serving ourselves
I’m still the kind of person who is shocked that you can run out of gas and run out of luck at the exact same time
It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…
Wittgenstein let the fly out of the bottle but western philosophy was soon back on the bottle
The quartermaster is responsible f… and nothing more Some of you will be content to half-ass the rest of it Some of you will be willing to ris…