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.

The more I see

The more I see of algorithmic intelligence, the more I change my view of human intelligence.

How can one be

How can one be disinterested in development?

New poems

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Precarious

The past is precarious.

The solution

The solution is not absolution.

Which came first

Which came first, the chicken or the idea of the chicken?

Molecule: a tiny lit mag

A little late posting this one, but "There is a poetry" has been published in Molecule: a tiny lit mag's Issue 14 (Spring 2006).

If you can't

If you can't be infallible, be careful.

If only

If only I could trust life like I trust the poem.

The unsettling reality (Baker)

The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to be true than our own.

Gerard Baker, editor-at-large of The Wall Street Journal