Parallelism

Parallelism is a fount of fertile assertion.

The more we endure

The more we endure a deathlike life,
the more we dream of a lifelike death.

What we do

What we do is based on what we've done.

On being idle

Idleness is not illness.

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Poetry is

Poetry is a struggle toward empathy.

Anti-human

The adoption of unfounded faith, blind faith, is a more anti-human—even a nihilistic—pose than the most ostentatiously evil posture.

Is it rational?

Is it rational to reject the irrational?

The illusion of a safe harbor

Are we to make of our lives the illusion of a safe harbor to hide in?

The optimal

The optimal is subverted, and enabled, by the adaptable.

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Is a mask

Truth is a mask that absurdity wears.

Is a mask

Absurdity is a mask that truth wears.

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Within the context

Utility only makes sense within the context of a goal.

A certain amount

We must tolerate—but never celebrate—a certain amount of mediocrity, both in ourselves and in others.

The world found out

In 2016, the world found out who Trump is.

In 2024, the world found out who Americans are.

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Author and finisher (Lincoln)

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?  I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.  It cannot come from abroad.  If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.  As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address

Little problem

I have little problem with any sin lacking in cruelty.