History’s first lesson– the ABCs– is that, unless coerced not to people kill the ones they hate History’s second lesson–

Self-flattery will get you everywhere but there’s nowhere left to go

The unconscious is to repression as The algorithms are to redaction

What if I could just do no wrong Then surely, I’d still get to bel… Perforce, I did nothing And found myself bluffing Whenever I needed to be strong

An overreaction used to tell you who was guilty Now it’s just another link in

You’ll be able to tell that nobody knows what anything is wort… when no one knows who they can tru…

God is the storm un– til He becomes your shelter from the storm. Amen

My corner of the internet may be infinitesimally small Not even a grain in a brick in the wall Yet still I’m a part

Our civilization is a bureaucracy And a bureaucracy’s raison d’etre Is to replicate itself Replicate, of course Means to repeat through duplicatio…

Beginner is talking yourself into doing what you are going to do anyway Advanced is talking yourself out of doing

The screen you’re looking at seven hours a day is actually a magnifying glass

A class marker is always written in permanent marker; in a classless society the permanent marker

In cyberspace We play Simon Says In an endless repetition of Repeat after me In the world to come

In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me

War gave way Not to peace But to endless meetings