Language and Thought

Isn’t that the desire of every heart? To be chosen ever so carefully by a pursuer of authentic beauty? To be cherished and allowed to be as one truly is, as one has been created to be before the pain of betrayal and selfish ambition.

To be known. Chosen. Always cherished. Often reread and appreciated for the unique creative work that it is.

No more.

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This viewpoint may be overly ambitious, and may even — horrors! -- be somewhat wrong, but I have observed that many good ideas start out by claiming too much territory for themselves, and eventually, when they have received their fair share of attention and respect, the air clears and it emerges that, though still grand, they are not quite so grand... See more

The tough thing about getting diagnosed with something later in life is that it makes you question everything that came before it.

Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.

Finally, we must do away with far and away the largest occupation, the one with the longest hours, the lowest pay and some of the most tedious tasks around. I refer to housewives doing housework and child-rearing. By abolishing wage-labor and achieving full unemployment we undermine the sexual division of labor. The nuclear family as we know it is ... See more

Believing in magic can be an irresponsible thing to do if it leads you to disengage from your material responsibilities– but if you’re a responsible person trying to get meaningful work done, and there’s a real possibility that something wonderful could happen and make everything tremendously better, it’s worth making a little space for, isn’t it?

The concept of communication is sustained, generated by technology, so really with the Internet we attain the highest limits of communication. But what I would ask is, ‘Who is it that communicates?’ Who is it? There is one terminal and then another. There are two terminals, two specific areas of abstraction which change the information. But also, a... See more

We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.