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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Life Consists of Love and Work, and Love Is Analogous to Work

When people ask
Business or pleasure?
I want to say
Life’s only pleasure
Is unfinished business
But that’s none of my business
So, I just say
It remains to be seen
And let everyone get on with
Digging through the remains
Of the analog

Otras obras de Chris Gaither...
Haiku

Coffee is for the middle-aged; we need both to shit and get shit done
Social Media Is the New Public Square

You will have noticed by now That the phrase Public humiliation Is redundant
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Smile, You’re on Candid Camera!

Our surveillance state is uniquely American in that it is of the people by the people and for the people
You Know Not the Day nor the Hour but You Know the Year, or At Least the Decade

Climate change is just the latest chapter in our ever-ending story
“No we’re never gonna survive, unless we are a little crazy”

The whole key To reinventing the wheel with cybe… Was making the ratio of the circum… Of a circle to its diameter A rational number
“What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism”

G.K. Chesterton said “When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything” But after a while,
Five Year Scam

Now that mindfulness is the official state religion the attention economy will be centrally planned
Surprise!

In the beginning God said Let there be light A week later In the Garden of Eden
Slow Down, We’re Running Out of Time

We’re running out of time Because we’re running So walk, don’t run For though we have no time to wast… Haste still makes waste
Whither Brute Force?

At bottom God is a brute fact and Satan a brutal fact
The Only Constant Is Fear of Change

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…
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”

If my peccadillos Are mere cigarillos Why is my hide as thick as an arma…
For the Express Purpose of Homeland Security

American Express changed its slog… “Don’t leave home without it” to “Don’t live life without it” in acknowledgement that
All Art Is Impolitical

The arts say What can’t be said While agitprop tells us What can be said In a game of
Not Now, Not Ever

We spend most of our waking lives alternating between procrastinatio… and delayed gratification as if by putting things off we’ve bought ourselves more time
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