Learning how to walk is learning how to fall forward while remembering to catch yoursel… again and again Walking is the illusion
That wasn’t the sky Falling on your head That was the truth gone to ground By playing dead
In a great leap forward Nanotech reduced life To avoiding death By turning life Into a video game
One would think the earth is flat “Unless” as the Coen brothers put it “round is funny”
Exhausted by the pendulum swings b… feeling overwhelmed and disappoint… we’ve taken elements from Too much, too soon and
Guilty, I’d pled when left for dead for what I had said but as the undead squeezed my bonehead
Where before It was handed to me on a silver-pl… Where everything real was just bel… Now I’ve found the real way forwa… By making it up as I go along
The state of nature, where there’s Something for everyone To fear Monotheism, where there’s Something for everyone
Frequently, God’s light is like sun glare, telling me to slow the heck down
Until now technology could be understood as an extension of the body’s will to power With AI
The world to come will be Exactly the same But for one startling difference: God’s love will never go unrequite…
We can be given responsibility by God but we can only take control
Philosophers dream of “The view from nowhere” Granting pure objectivity Instead, we got the internet’s View from everywhere
The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
We fear that the long game Is a long, lost game Because we find ourselves lost Forgetting how, on the surface of… We can plow forward in trust