Most of the things we want to talk about are continuous, and most of the ways we have to talk about them are discrete.
Dec 112020
Dec 102020
The obscure artist awaits the verdict of posterity, unable to compete with the living, expecting to compete with the dead.
Dec 092020
The desire for respectability is the censor’s natural ally.
Dec 082020
What you see is, at most, what you get.
Dec 072020
Markets tend naturally toward monopoly in certain commodities, like diamonds, or ideas.
Dec 042020
Once in a while evil triumphs because good men do nothing, but usually because they meddle in what is none of their damn business.
Dec 032020
The omnipotent state regards not the individual, but the family, as its most dangerous enemy. The individual it can use; the family it can do nothing with.
Dec 022020
A polity achieves decadence when the companies that help you make money make less money than the companies that help you spend it.
Dec 012020
The habitual liar suffers most for his spasms of honesty.
Nov 302020
The land of the blind has a blind god to whom the one-eyed man is sacrificed.