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Posts Tagged ‘ego’

Insomnia #1826

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Warning: Bricolage. Here’s a dollar – spend it on food, ok? My god is my bottle-I do what I mustMy demons are shardsOf a god I couldn’t trust- Waste Memories of the psych ward. Ambiguous confessions to murder, daydreaming, or worse. Banish them all – pursue happiness against all reason, whatever it takes. via FuKung.net [...]

Nihil Inimicus Quam Sibi Ipse [Oscar Wilde]

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

… It was an unjust mirror, this mirror of his soul that he was looking at. Vanity? Curiosity? Hypocrisy? Had there been nothing more in his renunciation than that? There had been something more. At least he thought so. But who could tell? … No. There had been nothing more… In hypocrisy he had worn [...]

Man’s Reflexive Inhumanity [Oscar Wilde]

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

As he looked back upon man moving through history, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied [...]

Drink and the Devil Took Care of the Rest.

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Some hours later, still sippin’ on the liquor of those long-dead… some thaumaturgically-awful concoctions thus contrived: Green – A mixture of orange juice, San Pellegrino, José Cuervo plata, Creme de Menthe, and Drambuie – absolutely horrible; extremely effective. Orange – José Cuervo plata, Fanta – absolutely horrible; marginally effective. Rancid Dew – Crème de Cassis, [...]

Insomnia #1808

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Over the course of reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I’ve decided to create a Read-along category for posts wherein I will share passages from texts available at Project Gutenberg. What’s the point? Final summation? None. Just looking to provide a few tie-ins with whatever mind I have left (as I exsanguinate [...]

Excess

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Campaign: Corporate PR programme to rebuild the reputation and communicate key messages about Scotland’s iconic drinks brand Result: Major articles were placed in influential business media communicating the strategic change in direction and profiling new management. Public perception of the company changed from one of secrecy and lack of understanding, to support for the new [...]

Taking Their Orders From Somewhere Else

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

via Mises Economic Blog (Comments) What is the value of public education? It’s self-evident that while there is likely not a far-reaching conspiracy to actively disseminate disinformation and reduce the majority of human beings to compliant slaves serving the interests of a ruling elite, basic human fallibility (and contributing influences which worm their way out [...]

On Salesmanship

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

A Customer versus The Operator Customer: Q: What else can you tell me about your company and services? I mean maybe you are unique somehow? Why should I join you? Operator: Other providers may offer lower prices, however, you will get the best deal on       with us if you factor in reliability and overall [...]

Epiphany

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I was experiencing a moment of déjà senti when the thought occurred to me that the originating experience may have preceded my present experience by a measurable time increment – and similar experiences may also have originated a discrete amount of time from their semi-conscious recollections. How very interesting… do go on, if you must… [...]

Too Byronic or not too Byronic?

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man. We need forever, especially in these loud-shrieking days, to remind ourselves of that. A man who [...]