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 [...]