[Excerpts from session notes of Dr. Barnaby Ebsen.]
“It’s the principle of thing.”
“What’s the principle?”
“What’s the—”
“Name it. This principle of the thing. A name gives it shape. Otherwise, it’s just this vague, amorphous badge of self-righteousness.”
“Wow.”
“Otherwise, you’re just this guy who let the air out of the car tires of some poor soul with an accessible parking permit.” Continue reading
[dark ruminations in the dark hours…]
“I too attained majority and blossomed toward adulthood in the `80s, the 1980s, that is, swimming pools and movie stars, gleefully embracing the Morning in America zeitgeist that permeated throughout what all right-thinking people viewed as the Free World. Finally, to shuck off the heavy burden that we’d been existing under, the so-called ‘post-war consensus’. Consensus? Nobody asked me. Consensus, what consensus? Continue reading
[Notes & Ruminations for a future lecture at the International Symposium of Cognitive Irrationality at Reno, NV, USA, dtbd]
. . .
What the world needs now is love, sweet love, if it were indeed the only thing that there was just too little of. You know what else there’s too little of in this world of ours? Humility. Continue reading