The fist

The fist of cooperative power should arise always and only to halt the ascent of the individual or inciting group seeking to appropriate power unto themselves.

Choose

Are we better off risking the excesses of liberation or the restriction of authoritarian control?

Memorials

War memorials that celebrate or commemorate
miss the point:

every one should say only
Never Again.

The eternal (Sapkowski)

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.

Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

Nothing (Kant)

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

Know All Things To Be Like This

My new poetry book, Know All Things To Be Like This, is out!  I received my copies today (earlier than I was expecting).  Anyone wishing to order a copy can do so at Amazon.  This one is a little longer than my others, some of the poems are a little longer, and I tried to choose poems that reflected a somewhat different side of my writing.  I look forward to hearing what people think!

Ethics

It is not enough to fight for an abstraction (values, ideology) or for individuals (tribalism); we must find and defend instances where the one is expressed through the other in the most satisfying manner (ethics).

It's what

It's not what you have,
it's what you lack.

Necessary

What is necessary to me is what is superfluous to others.

Imperative

Renunciation of the complicit is a moral imperative.

Our world

Our world is made of chance and focus.

Discipline

Discipline gives a taste of the control we can never have.

Anything

Call me anything but useful.

Nothing

Nothing partial can ever be true.

Also

A fool forgets that labor also impoverishes.

The essential

The essential is not inevitable.

On profit

We must relink profit with benefit.

New poems

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The sin

The sin of reason is rationalization.

Everything

Everything we now deem essential began as accidental.