Once you become convinced that you have come upon a profound truth it is natural to mobilize in favor of that truth, to speak in favor of that truth at every opportunity, to proselytize on behalf of that truth, regardless of whether that perceived truth corresponds to actual reality at all.  Belief is integral to action.  We all have a story about ( Read more... )

Who bothers with the minutiae of human minds?  The mind itself births our childlike wonder.  But wonder, as a rule, is relegated for children and artists.  The rest have duties.  And duties require action.  Wonder's action plays out in the human brain.  But we feel it through our body.  We stare at the heavens.  We watch an anthill.  We are ( Read more... )

unpack boxes into a silver room.  the curtains are moving.  the air smells like wet spring flowers.  It's cool.  This is the mossy glen neighborhood of unpacked minds.  We smell ourselves ripening.  We suffer tortured moments like strange apes, brows furrowed.  Pallid complexion, unfixed motives, unmoored ambition.  Weeks crowding months into ( Read more... )

I throw away everything I write.  It saves my pride to do so.  I can't even muster a letter and I dream of novels.  But novels are falling out of fashion.  The kids are more plugged in than ever.  They carry what amounts to a computer, a TV, a stereo, a camera, and a phone in one device that fits in their pockets.  They're ready for action on a ( Read more... )

this is a rapslapattack using facts

to break the backs of all beliefs

tell the people bowing on their knees

to stand up and take notice

of all gathered experience,

the data in the brain seeks

your analysis, a recursive

model of learning to disabuse

the masses, trained by

competition against

a challenging opponent,

the dragon you create

is the dragon you slay

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what does all this amount to?  conflict is eternal.  we approach conflict from a particular side and seek to advance our own position, but as conflicts themselves are sustained over vast periods of time, advantages are allotted to both sides, as they improve their battle designs and sharpen their points on the very resistance they confront.  But, ( Read more... )

What has not been truly recognized and confronted since Nietzsche is the vacuum left when religion is removed from the individual experience.  All of those conditions experienced by humans over endless centuries of generational evolution through natural selection are now conditions which do not prevail.

My mind splits at the thought of it.  We are ( Read more... )

We've all heard the words ramble from the mouths of the rappers,

who gamble when they speak like fools to the masses,

a train of thought is a hard thing to maintain,

so sit down maybe read a book, practice using your brain,

It's god's damn shame that we remain in the past

unable to break the bonds that hold us fast, to the last,

The solution is simple, ( Read more... )

work is an exercise, much as a practical application of all of our accumulated knowledge.  though we receive tasks by the circumstances and necessities of our position in the workforce, this does not sustain our intellect, if we have not attained to being a career intellectual.  Dirty hands and dirt under the fingernails, sweat on the brow, always ( Read more... )

I'm still caught between forces.  I feel the will to power emanate from everyone, from every living thing.  How can life be anything but conflict and struggle.  Circumstances are only details.  Stop and notice.  Even good intentions, good morals, are designed to have a certain effect.  It may be better for both parties, it may be win/win, but win/ ( Read more... )