Physicalism

In short, Physicalism is pro-beauty and anti-bullshit.

The Word

“Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn’t I find it? … The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.”

:: Hugo Ball

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The Doors of Perception

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment. But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this [...]

An Old Journal

Finding an old journal can be an awkward experience. Opening it, reading, in your own words, about, for example, how much you’re in love with someone. You know more than those words do, about the pages that follow, but no words are as convincing as your own.

An English Teacher

I met a Baltimore City English teacher today. She said :
“I have seen Dead Poet’s Society and that is me, but kids are different. They just want to have sex and get drunk and go to the mall and carry around $300 purses with $200 cell phones. These kids make their weather and stand in [...]