Being – Page 7 – Everything

Being

Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham

May 182022
 

If the rich and accomplished were swine, they would be envied less. As it is, they are envied for being rich, accomplished, and not swine.

May 122022
 

One’s former selves ought to be labeled with subscripts for the year, like isotopes with their atomic weights.

May 052022
 

Some feel a small secret joy when breaking a rule, others when following one.

Apr 262022
 

That we live in a simulation no one doubts. The only point at issue is whose.

Apr 222022
 

Agency — use it or lose it.

Apr 152022
 

An urge becomes irresistible by not being resisted.

Apr 112022
 

The characteristic maladies of our age are adult infantilism and childhood senescence.