Ideology readily replaces identity: both hinge on what and whom to hate.
Mar 032020
Mar 022020
Writing carries the small but ever-present danger of being understood.
Feb 282020
The good reader blames himself first for obscurity, and to punish this habit with nonsense is worse than bad writing: it is depraved conduct.
Feb 272020
It is perfectly possible to hate people without killing them, and vice versa.
Feb 262020
Though modern society generally punishes stupidity, it allows certain specialized forms of it, often confused with intelligence, to flourish.
Feb 252020
Many academic fields are barren, most because there are no truths to discover, not a few because the practitioners are too dull to discover them.
Feb 242020
Ugly furniture lasts forever.
Feb 212020
Aphorism: A blank page spoiled.
Feb 202020
The sum of human knowledge spread before you like a banquet, free, at the touch of a screen, and with everything to choose from, you attend to — each other.
Feb 192020
Everybody complains about getting older, but nobody does anything about it.