Every diatribe against credentialism begins with a recitation of the author’s credentials.
Oct 312023
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Oct 232023
Now or never are generally the two best options.
Oct 032023
That there is no difference, in practice, between stupid and evil is only an instance of the more general principle that there is none between can’t and won’t.
Sep 262023
Accurate measurement created much of the modern world, not least its tendency to take variation for apocalypse.
Sep 202023
It was the best of both worlds, it was the worst of both worlds.
Sep 152023
Transhumanist hell is other frozen heads.
Sep 122023
Marxism tamed revolution by rendering it “scientific”, inevitable, a matter of the right ingredients in the right proportions, like chemistry. What has been tamed will be vulgarized, and it is Marx himself who is the true father of Che on a t-shirt.
Aug 292023
Every accomplished torturer serves a long apprenticeship, beginning on insects, proceeding, if he shows sufficient relish, to small animals, and only then moving up to human beings.
Aug 232023
The last one to leave won’t have to turn out the lights: the power will have failed long since.
Aug 082023
Untold human ingenuity has been expended to mask the taste of alcohol.