The Real is meaningless but doesn’t lack meaning The Symbolic is meaningful but can lack all meaning We can only navigate
The bad news is that liberal societies can only cohere in the face of external enemies The good news is that we will never lack for
I’ll give you the forest And I’ll take the trees You save the whales And I’ll keep the bees The sand in your eyes
Two roads diverged the one to the left leading up the garden path the one to the right leading down the garden path
Like a fine wine liberalism only rises to the subli… with a good pairing
The central paradox of our broken world is known through the feeling of unsurprised disappointment Hope is the belief
God is a verb Woman is a noun And man is an adjective Put them together and you have Moderate
As you age getting enough exercise in futility becomes more and more a portent
When people say I live on my phone I wonder how they withstand the pr… Of eight tons per square inch
Because the ego mustn’t know its real mission lest it go back on accepting it, this message will self-destruct five seconds before life begins:
One would think the earth is flat “Unless” as the Coen brothers put it “round is funny”
Yes follow the money but only because the money follows the pleasure
When we poll people about what the weather in heaven is like the most popular answer perhaps not surprisingly is like a cold day in hell
After the death of God religion lived on as an inquest taboo
If the world exists on a continuum between utopia and dystopia but instead of polar opposites utopia and dystopia are both hell then at the exact midpoint
