“Better to fail to reach the pinnacle than to succeed at reaching medoicrity.”
“Live long and eat many fortune cookies.”
“In the end it will be okay. If it is not okay, it is not yet the end.”
99.5% of all jobs in the New York area fall into one of three categories:
– Medical
– Financial
– Retail
With the manufacturing base of this country gone and reflection and creativity long since in full retreat from modernity, these three things—medical, financial, and retail—are the entirety of our culture and way of life.
Moving money around.
Taking money from people.
Trying to keep them from dying.
Ugh. It’s really quite dismal.
§ As you get older, the ghosts become more real than anything else.
§ Under the leaves, soil. Under the soil, stone. Under the stone, souls.
§ Radically empowering individuals in society may be the worst mistake we ever made.
§ Want to be a radical? Refuse to suffer. Then, wait for the assault.
§ Goodbye 2017, part two. (The real part.)
§ Sometimes you find home where you’ve never been—and you dwell where you aren’t.
§ The self can’t play Atlas for postmodernity because science is now supernatural.
§ Rehab is universal. So is history.
§ Identity, transcendence, and tactics.
§ Untitled. (a.k.a. Pretty faces, new old photos.)