The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing
Alpha Moms These sorts of people really horrify me: they are our nation’s our internal terrorists, wiping all that is best in our lives mercilessly and relentlessly because they are utterly sure of the righteousness of their beliefs. Truly, all goodness demands that one be able to stop, clear one’s head of one’s thoughts and [...]
Democracy, n.
Democracy, n: The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.1 If we take this as a favorable statement about democracy, it is easy to see why a weighted democracy in which the power of one’s vote is scaled in correlation with objective measures of one’s ability [...]
Conservative, n
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.1 Everything is better when one has Ambrose Bierce at hand. Ambrose Bierce : The Devil’s Dictionary↩
Pangloss
What is a man? An animal that breaks under the weight of temptation and wonder, then, having broken once, breaks again under the weight of a guilt he cannot bear, the burden of an atonement he cannot make. And so he finds a way to find good in his crimes, to deny their senselessness, their [...]
Céline’s Best
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies upon before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, [...]
Ordinary And Mediocre
A sentence, if possessed of any truth, is equally true when the word “ordinary” has been consistently substituted for the word “mediocre”. Whenever this does not work out, someone has attempted to disguise bland averageness using the euphemism “ordinary”.
Wanting Something More
It’s easy wanting something more.1 So it is and so we suffer: everyone wants something more and so few want to be something more. Life In Your Way : Waking Giants : Threads Of Sincerity↩
Puritanism’s Inevitable Result
Americans compensate for being undersensual by being oversexual.
Archetypal S&M
Religion is driven almost entirely by two forces: man’s profound need to feel guilty and his often equal need to find others guilty.
Waters Of Ideals
With words like fatherland and purity we scrub the blood of dead men off of our hands.