Good, like happiness, is best achieved by indirection.
Sep 022021
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Sep 012021
As robots become more like humans, so humans become more like robots.
Aug 172021
It is a fundamental human desire to hear one’s own eulogy.
Aug 102021
Identity is partly inherited, and partly chosen, and not at all declared.
Aug 062021
We are to the immense wealth that swaddles us and the conditions that produced it as a fish to water — scarcely aware of it and shortly dead without it.
Jul 302021
To live is to close one’s options.
Jul 212021
The ideal aristocrat resembles the dogs of which he is so fond — steadfast, loyal, wedded to tradition, and just a bit thick.
Jun 182021
There is almost nothing that being prefaced with “social” cannot spoil.
Jun 172021
If everyone were morally gray, there would remain the question of shade.
Jun 032021
Never let Possibly Better be the enemy of Perfectly Adequate.