I can't imagine

I can't imagine tying my identity to identification with a group—what a diminishment!

If you are going to take it

If you are going to take it, take it personally.

Their insistence

It's not their being wrong that damns them, but their insistence on their right to insist they are right when they are wrong.

On credulity (ChatGPT)

The internet didn't invent credulity.

What it did was industrialize the distribution, targeting, personalization, and monetization of credulity.

That's different.

And that distinction matters because it changes the remedy.

ChatGPT

Not always

The implications are not always perceptible.

Built in

But profit has loss built into it.

A creative act

Any combination of two or more words is always a creative act.

Only the intelligible

Only the intelligible is eligible.

Life

Life is worth stealing, but not paying for.

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The markers of quit

What is ugly in the elderly is the resignation, the markers of quit.

Someone's normal

That which seems outrageous, that which seems unbearable, is someone's normal.

A condemnation

That every step is a step away,
a step further into the strange,
is a condemnation of others,
not a criticism of self.

He who is too timid to ask

He who is too timid to ask
is not worthy to know.

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I have ceased

I have ceased to believe in anything that requires belief.

Fade & ascend

The thinkers-of-the-thoughts fade...the thoughts ascend.

Ashes, at least

Ashes, at least, were something else once.

The ones

The ones I loved best are the ones I best imagined.

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