That knowledge is power, as if awareness conferred immunity, is among the oddest of the modern superstitions.
Feb 022016
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Jan 182016
Ideology, n. A theory that explains everything except its genesis.
Dec 212015
What is immoral should be illegal, and what is legal is not immoral — the bookends on the shelf of vulgar errors in political philosophy.
Dec 142015
The nodes do not intend the network.
Dec 112015
We argue in bad faith because we have forgotten what convinced us or are embarrassed by it.
Dec 022015
There is an absence of evidence that absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
Nov 232015
All sources are biased, all evidence is tainted, and all consciousness is bourgeois.
Nov 192015
“You are evil” — all lower-class arguments take this form. “You are stupid” is the higher class.
Nov 132015
We call mad the man with one fixed idea, and sane the man with none.
Oct 262015
Man begins by treating objects as agents; then he grows scientific, and treats agents as objects.