The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.
The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
Love, hate and cognitive dissonance
Thursday, January 26, 2012
what a drag it is getting old
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done
It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They were happy they knew me. We made it a little less boring.
Indeed.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Research indicates patterns. Patterns improve predictably. And as statistics can be shown, our programming proves your worth in helping us help you temper your aimless movement.
Life takes work. Death takes self. Being Not Dead takes Self Work: reflective examination, self interrogation and the guts to gash the bites and suck out the poison—all your conflicting thoughts and uncooperative emotions.
With the direction of You Are Not Dead: a Guide to Modern Living and the determination you give Self Work, knotting the ties that bind and answering for your signs, you will:
Learn to resist trifling complexities. Recognize the paths that are deceptively easy and those unnecessarily hard. Be mindful of delusion and mean to do something about it. Be open to closure and sew the wounds shut.
honesty
Monday, November 28, 2011
Don’t always protect people from your truth. It won’t make things right
One of the day-to-day reasons that relationships between human beings become so screwed up has to do with this well-intentioned deception. We protect those we interact with from the negative aspects of our feelings about them, because we want to be nice and foster goodwill. And we do it so fricking often, without even thinking twice about it! (“oh, it’s nothing”)
The problem is, it’s dishonest. It’s not authentic, and it misleads people who interact with you about how you really are.
untitled poem
Monday, September 12, 2011
i thought i saw a tear at the bottom of your eye
but it looked like crystals as i got closer.
or sparkles.
The other ‘9/11’
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Following Allende’s election, the US Ambassador cabled Washington: “Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first country in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly.”
Dear Jack,
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
thanks for your letter.
Politics aside, this hit me hard. i’ve just lost a summer to anger and fear and despair, despite many good things happening. Optimism i can kind of do, but my hope always goes nowhere, and love? i can’t even start, despair and fear and anger always follow when i try to love, when i even think of the word.
Where do i start, Jack?
i just hope that these sentiments can change the world, on a social as well as a political level, to the point that “get over it” and “who gives a fuck?” and “angst is for the weak” are no longer the answers my friends offer for my pain.
Why we fight
Friday, June 17, 2011
Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs
It is not democracy that keeps western nations at war, but armies and the interests now massed behind them.
Pseudoprosoponic Fiction
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Imagine a world – call it Mundavia – in which the dominant genre of literature is one in which plots, dialogue, and setting can be freely invented, but all the characters have to be real people.
