No, You Didn’t Ask, But So What?
Some thoughts:
During some of my moods, I’m not a great lover of people. At those times, the poor human verisimilitude provided by automated telephone menus makes me, in no uncertain terms, want to kill all of you.
Ladies: If you’re wearing shoes that look uncomfortable, e.g., you look like [...]
George Carlin died yesterday, at the age of 71. It’s hard to estimate Carlin’s value in the Western culture; his Seven Words are, today, somewhat less powerful than they were in 1972, and no matter his one-time popularity, their deflation is not significantly his doing, I think. At his height, TV love scenes [...]
Even sloppy math must take as its precedent the axioms it aims to employ. Every pragmatist must underpin her decision structure, however loosely, on the same combinatorial landscape as does every idealist.
Sloppiness works, and sometimes it works better than fastidiousness. Still, don’t think you can, through a focus on expediency, escape the need [...]
The Time-independent World Order
I recently read two pieces a synthesis of which might be interpreted to say that all we can hope for in life is to concoct an artifice which distracts us from the impending and concurrent oblivion of purposelessness which would otherwise crush us. This is not idle nihilistic navel gazing, though [...]
How can we expect a thing whose success is built on competition and war, to ever truly want, let alone achieve, peace? There is no peace in evolution nor in innovation, nor in sport nor in ambition. The only peace is death, and so as death is the utter defeat of a system, [...]
She’s used to being pretty. She wears that expertly-blended expectation on her cheeks and eyes. It’s a shade of nostalgia, for days when delusion came more easily. Death dressed up.
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