gravity, avoirdupois

Bring a knife, a cheese grate, a razor, an iron and anything to gag the screaming.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

So, take the idea of “rights” and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: the source of a right is power, a right is the function of power. Take two trays of a weighing scale: put a gram on one, and on the other, put a ton. […] Assuming the “I” has the same “rights” compared to “WE” the State, is exactly the same thing as assuming that a gram can counterbalance a ton. Here is the distribution: a ton has rights, a gram has duties. And this is the natural path from insignificance to greatness: forget that you are a gram, and feel as though you are a millionth part of the ton…

Climate change is difficult because it’s not in our nature to perform favours for people that aren’t born yet.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I have found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves - our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that I’ve been one myself, I know.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.