The Snippets of Doom II

Outside the box, thinking.
  March 2, 2005

Why do we use filler words, the “likes” and “you know’s”?  What evolutionary purpose do they serve?

I grind my teeth compulsively while reading Locke and the rhythm of this grinding subconsciously falls in line with the ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece.

What is freedom good for except giving it away?

Ugresic: “Listening is submission to the dominance of another.”  True.  No interaction is free from submission or domination.  Perhaps the key is a theory of beneficial submission.

We want our friends to like what we like, and for the same reasons.

How do you like your truth: straight up or with a twist?

When the shit hits the fan, do a Rorschach test.

What’s a little incest between relatives?

The better tomorrow, yesterday.

“If and when—then maybe.”

[orig. in Russian]: Saw a pretty, intelligent-looking girl on the subway and a shock went through my soul, pain seized the insides.  But this pain is sweet, delectable; it gives pleasure; one wants it never to end, or at least to end not through dissipation but through a buildup, an explosion.  Every true earthly joy contains this pain because one realizes that the joy is either unattainable or passing.  The pain of the loss of love is an integral part of love; the pain of the unattainability of love is the core of my chance, fleeting encounter with this (forever) strange girl.  Etc.

Justice is god’s politics.  Only god’s politics is justice.

It’s hard to be a philosopher when you’ve got a hard-on.

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.  Left nut, right nut…  My, what big synthesis you have!

Evil doesn’t have a chance.  It has certainty.

(See also: The Snippets of Doom (part I))

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