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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Mass Psychosis With Extreme Anxiety

“The schizophrenic is not, as generally claimed, characterized by his loss of touch with reality but by the absolute proximity to and total instantaneousness with things, this overexposure to the transparency of the world.” Jean Baudrillard

Sanity requires distance
And social media is always
Right at our fingertips

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
Fly, Turkeys, Fly

Thanks to his bifocals Ben Franklin could see that while we might look like bald… up close we’re clearly turkeys
“Our nervous system is simultaneously being challenged by incompatible demands demanding both avoidance of contact with the SARSCov2 virus and the fulfillment of our biological imperative of connecting with others to feel calm and safe”

The genius of Big Tech’s business… is its simplicity: Get people to pay for what they had previously accessed for free
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The Four-Letter Word for Peace Is Kill

Updating Yeats’s “The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passio… I’d say The best lack all conviction
The Unbearable Truth

It always comes down to what is most important to you and what is most important to you is not knowing what is most import…
Coincidentally, Elephants and Scorpios Both Remember Everything

For twenty years people kept insis… that there was an elephant in the… but I just didn’t see it And then I realized I was the elephant
All You Need Is Love

The only possible form of self-awareness is knowing what you want to be true
A Consonant Question

Consider the vowel: In Marxism, the last shall remain… as the second A in materialism always becomes the second E in mat… And in capitalism, of course
On Halloween I Used to See a Lot of Sonny and Chers; Now I See More Bonnie and Clydes

As long as there have been people there have been people wearing mas… the difference now is that each mask comes with an entire cos…
Haiku

Mid-life crisis: the failure to start hoping you don’t get what you want
Good for Nothing

Everyone has a gift in life and mine is knowing exactly how much I can bid in a silent auction without winning
Let’s Start at the Beginning

Post-Enlightenment Secular Mater… Terminated in the pandemic lockdow… You could say The End of History Came after all
In My Culture We Say Let’s Get Together and Feel Uptight

The best a mystic can say is that while none of us are one of a kind we’re all kind of a one
The New Age of Anxiety

People complain that religion tell… missing the point that it enables… other people telling you what to d…
Haiku

Love your enemy but do continue to hate your rival factions
Our God Is One

The faceless horde finds strength in numbers by losing themselves in the crowd But when your numbers are small



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