Beginner is talking yourself into doing what you are going to do anyway Advanced is talking yourself out of doing
In a bit of irony the only thing that both sides can agree on is that a win-win is intolerable
In regular old capitalism we used to say time is money In the attention economy we say
Let good intentions be my sword and naivete my shield
Of late, being good materialists we put space first calling this universe spacetime Yet, at the speed of light it’s not space collapsing
There was no end in sight but we put an end to that by losing our sight And all we could hear was the sound of violence
Because the Real is unimaginable effective liars exploit what people want to be true– This is known as the Unreal But the opposite of the Unreal
There is only one product but infinite ways to package it
In the battle between good and evil good appears to be playing for a tie Evil,
Materialism is no way out of Cartesian dualism It just turns backwards– I am, therefore I think– in an infinite regress
My dissertation defense fell apart even as I read my title– The Bronze Age: A Golden Age of…
The fog is so thick now We’re buried up to our necks in it Our bodies out of sight And out of mind Making the ground beneath our feet
When our mirror stage was over we didn’t just lose the mirror we also lost the stage In replacement we got a screen (for screening out…
A man wants the mother of his children to be a chef in the kitchen “imaginative” in the bedroom a shrink in the living room
The crucial moment in my elevator pitch comes when I hit the emergency stop button