Minding God’s Business by Prickly Oxheart.
Don’t be put off by the title. Wise and timely advice for us all in these troubled times.
Coffee stop.
”Self-awareness is arduous, and since most of us prefer an easy, illusory way, we bring into being an authority.”
— Krishnamurti
Long(ish) drive home today after a great weekend with old friends and (perhaps) summer’s last hurrah.
”The danger isn’t that AI becomes sentient. It’s that humans persist in treating it as if it were.”
”…the self is not an entity you must liberate, improve, or protect. It is a performance of claiming, sustained only by repetition.”
Mars and the Artist by Cy Twombly.
The morning after the night before… 😵💫
Weekend away.
Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta by Jean-Michel Basquiat
”If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”
— Herman Hesse
”In philosophy, and particularly in metaphysics, certainty is a kind of death. It kills the question by embalming the answer. Not because the answer is false, but because it can no longer be touched.
The open mind does not cling to one story of consciousness. It does not convert hypothesis into creed. It does not confuse explanatory utility with ontological finality.
It remains open—not weakly, not passively—but rigorously. It doubts with precision. It resists seduction by coherence. It asks again.
I am not certain. That is my clarity.”
Oblique strategy: Try not naming things.
Boredom is wanting something that isn’t there. Contentment is having everything when nothing is there.
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.
“Oh, you people are slow. Bringing you up to speed is like trying to explain Norway to a dog.”
— Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses
Seagram Murals by Mark Rothko
Rewatching Slow Horses.