There is a happiness in widely-shared enforced misery that goes a long way toward explaining nostalgia for Stalinism, or broadcast television.
Sep 032020
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Aug 272020
A single betrayal, revealed at the proper time, can retrospectively poison a man’s whole life.
Aug 262020
It is a world of men who look like Unix system administrators, without the Unix system administration skills.
Aug 212020
Nothing in psychology replicates as well as stereotypes.
Aug 192020
Naive is a polite term for stupid, and stupid is a polite term for rotten.
Aug 122020
I respect pretense, which suggests shame.
Aug 072020
Stupid comes in only two flavors, as different as chocolate and vanilla: those who know they are, and those who don’t.
Jun 232020
How do I know what I am until I see what I do?
Jun 192020
People don’t change: they unfold.
Jun 152020
Human development has increasingly prolonged childhood and adolescence, now often fifty years or more.