A quest for the exotic is always rooted in contempt for the familiar.
Jun 202022
Jun 172022
Rules are made to be selectively enforced.
Jun 162022
Of all discourse, only debate binds its participants, by rule and in advance, to a position that they must defend throughout. It is the formal expression of our worst tendencies.
Jun 152022
The psychologists tell us that what we possess we hold too dear — except our inherited civilization, which we are ever eager to part with on the cheap.
Jun 142022
A memory lapse is a file not lost but only illegibly labeled; once located, its contents are generally intact.
Jun 102022
If luck did not exist, it would be necessary for men, to live together in society, to invent it.
Jun 092022
Consensus reaches further than conspiracy ever could.
Jun 082022
The hygienic metaphor — “cleansing”, “extermination”, “vermin” — always marks murderous intent.
Jun 072022
Peer pressure, n. Peer review for children.
Jun 062022
Every photograph is fake.