Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble
In the cold war the gravest danger was recklessnes… which we solved with Mutually Assured Destruction The culture war
Self-discipline is The only real self-indulgence Everything else is self-abnegation
If Meta has its way Meta will be to the metaverse as God is to the universe Of course if you look God in the face
If we’re all afraid of change and if the more things change the more they stay the same then we’re all afraid that nothing will ever really chan…
Being human beings Pacifists are just as obsessed With wielding power As everybody else And just as pathological as those
A smart phone is 1/7 billionth of a doomsday machine
At the end of The Sorcerer’s App… as chaos reaches a crescendo the sorcerer appears just in time and sets things back in order Apprenticed to no one,
The first half of life: Did I say that? The second half of life: I did say that The end of life:
The world has gone to heck And heck is hell Minus the pleasure
The kingdom of heaven is like two otherwise mediocre individuals making a great couple
God gives us what is necessary but not sufficient because nothing is ever sufficient
Let good intentions be my sword and naivete my shield
The first half of life: If it ain’t broke Don’t fix it The second half of life: If you can’t fix it
Everyone wants to live forever because fear is self-perpetuating No one wants to overcome the fear… because courage is selfless