The sleepless nights are painful, though I need to catch up on my insomnia…
Insomnia: metonym for the clarity of perception which arrives when the brain gives up pursuits aetiologic and starts choking down unfiltered reality with willful abandon. Glutting on ideation which lacks the quality assurance of a well-rested perspective may result in paroxysms of [...]
Pay no attention to the spiders - that was not a spiderweb, you did not walk through it, there are not spiders in your hair and they are not building a nest.
This is not a universe of negation. Meaning does not exist outside of itself. You are not the one attaching meaning to this. You [...]
to have meaning
molten, formed, mixed
No thing made of flesh has this much promise, this much patience.
Words are not intent distilled like metal is.
This is relevant to my interests.
[Animals] lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in [...]
Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who studied nascent democracy in the United States and published De la démocratie en Amérique (Democracy in America) in 1835, said of our republic:
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
Bribery’s counterpoint - extortion - appears to be [...]
Do you believe everything you know? Do you know everything you hold as a belief?
We are forced to take irrelevant factoids for granted and start buying into other peoples’ ideas, sooner or later – how much we have left of ourselves at the end of the day is a testament only to our perseverance.
We are [...]
The basis for my short, sweet, and to-the-point The time has finally come… post - Short Cuts by Daniel Soar - has made it to cnet news for an “exclusive” review of ThorpeGlen’s telecommunications data analysis and extraction offerings.
With the passage of laws like the FISA Amendments Act and the USA Patriot Act, in most [...]
This is how I start thinking after missing a few nights’ sleep.
There has never been a better time to be a person. The bright minds and busy hands behind technology will never cease to bring us edifying new inventions perfectly-suited to the purpose of spreading love and joy.
In an era when the only way to cow terr’rists is by being the biggest, meanest, bomb-droppingest terr’rist on [...]
cui bono?
to whose benefit? (from Latin)
A conspiracy may be defined as a plot between a group of people to commit an unlawful act - though, more generally, the concept of a conspiracy is known to mean an arrangement between a group of people to commit an act which, if revealed for its intent, would prove [...]
