Modernity offers us few truly potent metaphors because it is an anti-metaphorical time. We like our truths cut up into little bits that we can control, not vast unsettling realizations that spur us on to do more with our time. A simple Obey! Consume! Reproduce! Vote! Equality! is the kind of message we like, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘neurosis’
Self-importance
Imagine that late at night, you could glide over this city. Start at your home and work your way inward, toward the gleaming center of the city. Look how these buildings thrust off the earth and rise. They scream an immortality at a sky they believe to be empty and thus uncaring. Paradoxical but powerful [...]
Straight to Hell
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.– Arthur Schopenhauer (Why) Everything is going to hell. These days we have armies of “experts” investigating the causes of our misbelonging. Of our unexpected freight and intangible unease. The face of yet another famous sociologist, media-specialist or [...]
The Vicious Cycle
Today a woman told me: “America is, was and always will be the Greatest Nation On This Planet and once we get that idiot out of our White House and get a true born red blooded republican American Patriot voted in, we will be on the right track once again.” Both the faith in Obama [...]
A short fragment
I get tired of reading men’s magazines describing the wishes of women, or writing about what they want. Descartes found his existence indubitable because, in order for the doubt to occur, it had to be carried by a vessel, an underlying substance. With other words in order for Descartes to be consequent in his doubt [...]
All the broken people
Voyeurism is prevalent in our society – in fact, it’s accepted. Where Dear Abby used to be the indulgence of bored housewives, things like Love Letters and similar blogs give people a view into the lives of their neighbors. It’s interesting reading into the relationship issues some people have – many are valid problems that [...]
When Fear Runs Your Life, Ask Yourself Why
Fear controls the lives of most moderns as we lack goals at the community level. We watch movies about abductions, murders, and superheros saving the day, and since we don’t even know who our neighbors are let alone our selectmen and other community leaders, fear rattles around in our brains. We feel that if it can happen [...]
US Naval fleet falls apart before our eyes
WASHINGTON—The piracy crisis over a lone hostage in the Indian Ocean took on the familiar air of a cops-and-robbers standoff, with the U.S. Navy seeking advice Thursday from seasoned FBI negotiators. Their goal: Resolve the incident without military force. As the FBI joined the delicate negotiations, the shipping company Maersk said that the safety of [...]
Where liberalism and fascism cross over
Politics is a game. The first step is to get you to pick a symbol of what you want as a replacement for the reality of dealing with needs. It’s like a talisman: when demons appear, wave this at it. That’s how most people use politics. Even good-intentions, like “be fair” (left) and “natural selection” [...]
