Archive for October, 2008


October 22, 2008

We have to be both symbol and self at the same time.
Fight or flight?Fight or flight or love.
The human mind is unable to create a new ritual for the same reasons it is unable to create a new form of hospitality:the need to satisfy the human heartmind.


October 19, 2008

In a lawsuit, you are not trying to convince the lawyers.
Presidential elections are our bread and circuses.
Everyone likes to think they are playing a part in an ideal society.Yet these parts are mostly dysfunctional bureaucracy.This is because all the parts are played by primates.


October 17, 2008

Life is like the Internet writ large.We click along, click along, distracted by this, obsessed by that. Suddenly it is twenty years later.
Understanding life does not give life meaning.
Got delusions?


October 13, 2008

The world isn’t small.Your world is small!
I may not be changing my personality, but i am changing my description of my personality.
All we have is oversimplification.


October 10, 2008

Love is learning.School me.
You get the princess and you live happily for a little while.
No one else needs to understand the love you have for other people as much as you yourself.
Do not confuse communication with truth.


October 8, 2008

In theory we can change, but not in practice.
All men are created equal but all men are not created equally interesting.
Eventually, for security reasons, they will ban fire.


October 4, 2008

The student must go over and take the subject matter away from their teacher.
Studying is a kind of intelligent listening.
Simplicities stops the pains of learning.


October 1, 2008

Hopes slip through our hands like sand in an hourglass.
There comes a time when even being alive is age-inappropriate.
An enjoyable part of aging is feeling sorry for yourself.