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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

@TheRealSustainability

The Fed has
one lever to pull–
interest rates–
to keep all of us
consuming
 
The superego has
one lever to pull–
guilt–
to keep each of us
conforming
 
As long as we can keep
conforming by consuming
then everything is going to be okay

Otras obras de Chris Gaither...
Work ‘Til You Shop

As long as I’m working I only feel free time slipping away The fear is that if I stopped working
Solution-focused Thinking

The stapler inevitably jams And it’s always the stapler That jams the copier Except for the times it jams When you try to copy something you…
Burning House of Love

I can’t just let go of my past I have to lose a tug of war and get third degree rope burns
Eight Rhymes with Hate

It took years of therapy but the octopus finally arrived at… that the reason she didn’t like th… was because they were so much alik…
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Caricature Is Density

The world is a cast of characters Social media is a caste of caricatures
In the World to Come There Will Be Neither Capitalism nor Socialism Because People Will Finally Grasp the Difference Between Wants and Needs, i.e. There Will Finally Be Monotheism

The difference between God and human beings Is that God gives you what you deserve Which is always what you need
It Was All an Act

You can’t know what you will decid… But you will know when you have de… You can’t know how you will act on… But you already know what is at st… Everything hangs in the balance;
The Peace Movement Has Gone Nuts

Today’s peace movement, in a nutsh… Do what we do Not what we say And we say we come in peace Because we’re mostly peaceful
Ok Google, Who Is to Blame?

If you take the cognitive map of… and rip it in half you’re left with two Google Maps: the one on the right of Israel
The Real “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Is Understanding That Life Is Hard but That’s Not a Problem

You have a real life if there are no easy solutions You have a real problem if there are no easy solutions but there is an easy way out
Artificial Emotional Intelligence

Strange how we’re so worried about Artificial Intelligence taking ov… when we’ve long since succumbed to Artificial Emotional Intelligence in the belief that if we
Silk

When my father-in-law dusted the cobwebs off our front p… they were back within the week It is hard to feel sorry for a spe… that has negligible capacities for…
Being and Time: A Riposte

We are only here for a short time So, you might ask What are we for? Believe it or not, we are for God Doubling down
“Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin reported they successfully used a brain scanner paired with an AI language model to glean the gist of a person’s thoughts and translate them into words”

When anything you think Can and will be used against you The purpose of state-funded educat… Will be learning not to think As the doyens of higher learning
God Is Omnipresent but You Can’t See Him; Screens Are Everywhere and All You Can See Is Yourself

It’s no coincidence that a mirror… making all self-examination a form… in which I observe myself to remak… in my own image This only works if I believe



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