Still Going On
It’s 8:21 AM. I woke up at 7:30 AM. I went to bed at 2 AM. I can taste my lungs in my mouth when I cough — the bile-tasting, vile-tasting phlegm that’s filled them since I got off of the plane and have gotten slowly sicker. There’s no time to be sick, though. Too [...]
Happy Birthday To Manny
Happy birthday to Manny, my oldest friend in the world and the best example I have in my life of what friendship truly means — someone who demands little and gives much.
Upon Arrival
Like always when I’m in the States and have so little time to see so many people and do so many things, the motto is the same: Give more. Give everything. Give blood.1 I’ll need to keep that in mind as I arrive in the States at a time that feels to me a whole [...]
E-Town Concrete
No time for napping. I don’t believe in miracles: I’m making my shit happen.1 E-Town Concrete : E-Town Concrete : End Of The Rainbow↩
From A World-Traveller
The truth from a true world-traveller: what is best in people and what is worst in people is relatively constant. Each nation has its distinctive type of worst members and best members. Part of the charm of a new nation is that one still does not yet know how to idenfity the worst members quickly [...]
Your Own Moral Code
I am a firm believer that in our world you must live by a moral code that is often opposed to the moral code common in our society. Yet, I must admit that if you disagree with my moral code and cannot justify your differences to me, I will hold you to mine.
Power Corrupts
Power corrupts. Popularity corrupts. Or, perhaps simply, power and popularity attract the corruptible. All are partially true — but we must bear in mind that not all men are equally corruptible.
To Be Aggressive
To be aggressive is beautiful — though beautiful in the way all that is δεινός is beautiful — if you have good intentions: with the wrong intentions, it is what makes you a monster that poses real danger to the world. Those with wrong intentions who are not aggressive seldom do that much damage to [...]
Liberty
Our liberty is confined only by the boundaries at which we begin to encroach on the liberties of others. Clearly this is justice: the problem is the definition of encroachment.
A Modern Utopia
And the subtler people are excessively tormented by a sense of observation, unsympathetic always and often hostile.1 H. G. Wells : A Modern Utopia↩