Clippings

"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

**Robert M. Pirsig**

The desperation for such a raw, overwhelming physical experience,



Pornography,



Can be seen as the soul's protest against a disembodied, overly-sanitized, and rationalized modern world.

❌ “Life is good”
- epistemic hubris
- perpetuates the original sin
- the gods will smite you 

✅ “I could die at ease now”
- signals genuine satisfaction
- awareness of the eternal present
- courageous acceptance of your mortality

“Those who read the press of their group and listen to the radio of their group are constantly reinforced in their allegiance. They learn more and more that their group is right, that its actions are justified; thus their beliefs are strengthened. At the same time, such propaganda contains elements of criticism and refutation of other groups, which will never be read or heard by a member of another group...Thus we see before our eyes how a world of closed minds establishes itself, a world in which everybody talks to himself, everybody constantly views his own certainty about himself and the wrongs done him by the Others - a world in which nobody listens to anybody else.” ― Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

@garybernhardt I'm excited to stop writing code and start writing machine-readable specifications of precise intended behavior

The poem <n>My Symphony</n> by <n>William Henry Channing</n>.

Actor <n>Mark Margolis</n> as <n>Sol Robeson</n> in <n>Darren Aronofsky</n>'s 1998 film <n>Pi</n>.

A portrait of film director <n>Stanley Kubrick</n>.

Film director <n>Andrei Tarkovsky</n> in the 1984 documentary <n>Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema</n>.

A basic tenet of somatics holds true for better or worse:  we become what we practice and we’re always practicing something.

Terence McKenna  ANIMALS ARE SOMETHING PLANTS INVENTED TO MOVE THEIR SEEDS AROUND

“at each step, do what feels most clear and alive“

This is exactly what I want to feel when I download a new app. I want, while entering the world of a product, think to myself “Oh My God, this is so awesome, I will be able to do so many things now! I urgently need to share it to all the people I know.”

We started with the idea of matter being permanent and without structure, but we came to know that matter is really a fossil in remembrance of the beginning of the universe — Prigogine