Improving Humanity
If your goal is to improve humanity, you’re going to have to lie and manipulate people. “Be the change you want to see in the world” really means “pretend to be the change you want to see in the world”.
Posi?
I think the problem a lot of people have, rightly, with posi ethics is that so much of it isn’t ethics at all, but an attempt to just be happy with the world and lessen the so-called negative emotions. That’s to say, the world isn’t supposed to be improved: we’re just supposed to learn to [...]
Quote Of The Day
If the Good Lord had intended me to focus on things, he wouldn’t have given me ADD. Manny gets an award for having said this because circumstances won’t let me give him a high five.
Intriguing
Do any of us even hear the etymology of “intriguing” in that word anymore — a person whose life is filled with intrigues? Perhaps if we did and yet we maintained its current meaning, we would understand a great deal more about the things we find interesting.
Molière
O admirable pattern! Virtuous dame! She lives the model of austerity; But age has brought this piety upon her, And she’s a prude, now she can’t help herself. As long as she could capture men’s attentions She made the most of her advantages; But, now she sees her beauty vanishing, She wants to leave the [...]
Scattered Bits
Our past joys burn like sulfur vents on the floors of Hell — scattered bits of flaming rage amidst darkness and ash. You walk forward perforce, though the horizon is always the same distance ahead of you and never changes and you have no reason to believe that the future will be any better than [...]
Happy Birthday Harek
To one amazing friend who has done more than anyone else this year to increase my faith in friendship.
Politics
Regarding political theories, we really need only to ask two questions: is this possible? and is it desirable? In general, political writers focus so much on one that the other is lost.
To Be Alone
Not many people know what it is to be alone and not knowing this, do not know the pleasures of society — nor the pleasures of solitude. For society is safety even while it is stagnation.
The Darkest Thoughts
My saddest and darkest moments always have one image behind them all: And we will live this tragedy in perpetuity.