The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.

This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Selfie, say cheese.

I hate snl

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

Our ability to compartmentalize and also to frankly lie to ourselves are survival mechanisms as human beings. Because if we truly let ourselves consider how unhinged this man is and how he could end up blowing everyone up on the planet, we'd never sleep again.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

If you have chronic pain you should get permanent blanket forgiveness for lateness.

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Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Only what is mortal bears life. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.

“The question is not ‘Why do some poor people steal?’ The question is ‘Why don’t ALL poor people steal?’” Wilhelm Reich What is Class Consciousness? (1934)

This is all America is and has ever been and will ever be.

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

Should we just shortcut the next few years of slow awaking consciousness and jump right to “Abolish America”? Save everyone some time?

Nobody asking for money in the street is doing well. The story they tell you may be a lie but nobody who’s doing well stops strangers on the street to ask for 25¢ as a scam.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.

You're disgusting and you're nasty.

Cause you're filthy and I'm gorgeous.

You don't get perfect by avoiding imperfect. You get perfect by being imperfect 100,000 times. Then on the 100,001 try you get it right.

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

That's because they are on the same side, the one of imperial America. But it does give "you're in the sandbox I'm at the gun store".

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

Are you out of your mind?

Probably using physical textbooks.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.

Venezuela’s literacy rate is 97.1%. The US literacy rate is 80% if you include adults who read at an elementary school level. If you only include adults who read at a 12th-grade level the US literacy rate is below 50%. You simply do not have the range to be talking about “third world countries.”

Level of horniness: Death in The Hogfather has a hot voice

People also blame food poisoning on Asian or South American food when actually that stuff is so much healthier! Americans don't realize that it's THEIR shitty food, not ours.

It’s not just the food poisoning either - a huge chunk of the US population lives their whole lives with diarrhea and/or highly irregular bowel movements and just accepts it as normal

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Shout out to that woman who heckled Louis CK that one time.

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room.

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.

Why do we need to waste water for this. If you want to see this kind of unsophisticated manipulative behavior look around at any number of publicly visible immature men.

A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.

My apparently controversial opinion is that nobody should be getting grants from the government to study anything until everyone in the country has food and housing and medical care. If a country can’t afford to feed everyone then it can’t afford cutting-edge research.

listen im not very well spoken on this stuff we need help. the time for silence from supposed allies has long since passed and they are pushing things that will directly harm trans kids. they seek our elimination because we embody everything they want to take from everyone. freedom. choice. hope.

I don't want to live any more it's too expensive

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.