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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good

If I said–
The worst thing you can say about him
is that he always plays it safe–
then he sounds like a perfectly nice guy
 
But when I say–
The worst thing you can say about a man
is that he always plays it safe–
it’s because the perfectly nice guy
is the enemy of the good man

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
The Death Instinct Can Lead to Aggression or Heaven (the Former May Feel Like the Latter but Only Leads to Hell)

In order to live I can’t die (but you can) In order to live and let live I must (eventually) die
Ill at Quantitative Ease

The discomfort that Americans now all evince in one another used to be reserved for old people who get rich quick
If Things Go Wrong, We Can Always Do No Wrong

In contemporary materialism the miracle of consciousness is filtered through zeros and ones making One a number of things with zero chance of going right
You Might as Well Smile

Smile and the whole world smiles with yo… Laugh and the whole world smiles with yo… Cry
She Drives Me Crazy

I don’t get mad I get odd
Haiku

Mistakes are inev– itable; owning them is inestimable
“Underachievers Please Try Harder”

As a child Whenever I played Ms. Pac Man On my Atari 2600 I dialed the settings down From four ghosts to one
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Desires Are Real, Beliefs Are Symbolic, I Am Imaginary

People don’t have beliefs, they ha… beliefs are just how we relate to… More simply: I am a relationship to desire
Own Your Choices, or They Will Own You

We confuse freedom for the act of choosing when our frontal lobe has no choice but to choose just as a heart must beat
Person, Place, or Thing

Part 1- Who am I? A missing person Where’s my place? It’s where I must stay
The Airspace of the Lost

I was afraid of death which is to say afraid to live until I chose my hill to die on For in deciding where
Recent Headline: “The robots are here. And they are making you fries.”

“You want fries with that?” used to be a line to mock the working poor How ironic that “You want fries with that?”
There’s a Thin Line Between Share and Overshare, and Thanks to Spotify I’ve Crossed It

Life’s greatest mystery is how other people could possibly have as little interest in my Spotify playlists
“Students and professors can’t decide whether the AI chatbot is a research tool– or a cheating engine”

A student’s job has always been to put received knowledge into their own words or, more simply to state the obvious
Coffee Schlock

Crypto is for the solvent Crypto is a solvent Invest amongst yourselves



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