The consensus on art

The consensus on art is that there is no consensus on art.

An interesting model

An interesting model to follow may be the chronological, in which neighbors may appear more related than they are due to perceived implications of proximity and conflation with causality.

Obsession with the substrate

Obsession with the substrate may be as bad as ignorance of the substrate.

On happiness

Happiness is a hope, and then, if you're lucky, one day a memory.

What I miss most

What I miss most is the charm of the world.

We try

We try to tame the world with so many real and imagined connections.

To you

It's not what it means, it's what it means to you.

To be unreasonable

To be unreasonable is treasonable.

The New World

Those who build in a New World cannot expect those for whom the New World has become an Old World from which there is no Old World to go to to see it in the same way, to do with it as they do.

Frustration and confusion

Frustration and confusion come before grief, then wait for grief and, when it comes, walk with it to the end.

Cosmologically misaligned (The Consilience)

The mind clinging to fixed categories is not intellectually limited. It is cosmologically misaligned with the nature of change itself.

The Consilience

Done with the sadness

Why can't we be done with the sadness when the lesson of the sadness has been learned?

Happiest

Happiest is the one best at making the most of the pittance.

To invert the expected thing

To invert the expected thing, you must continue to invert the expected thing, even when that means returning unexpectedly to the expected thing.

But is it?

But is it worth fighting for what is worth fighting for?

Speak & listen

Speak to the uproar, but listen to the hush.

Loss is the easiest lesson

Loss is the easiest lesson because it comes most often.

The point of the plot

The point of the plot is to plot the point.

People's worse choices

People's worse choices are also an attempt at adaptation.

Egoism

Egoism is the stone pretending to be a seed.