Language and Thought

“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

There was a time in our own past when the “work ethic” would have been incomprehensible, and perhaps Weber was on to something when he tied its appearance to a religion, Calvinism, which if it emerged today instead of four centuries ago would immediately and appropriately be labeled a cult.

Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.

"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" is actually an excellent and life-affirming attitude

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. 1

The ideas aren’t all gold, but they seem to find the people who want them, and they start to give life.

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

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