Meandering home | by Kamiel Choi

7 February, 2022

Commoning with my daughter

O my 43th birthday, I took my bicycle to a nearby town to pick up a shovel that I had bought online. I was going to build a club house with my daughter, next to a small river on public land. We found two trees and a log that fit perfectly on the branches. We …

20 January, 2022

Laughs

Philosophy is a profession

“Everybody is a philosopher in their own way.”

Everybody is an artist in their own way.
Everybody is a doctor in their own way.
Everybody is a lawyer in their own way.
Everybody is a pilot in their own way.
Go fuck yourself in your own way.

19 December, 2021

Poetry

Far away

The cattle is furrier
The mountains are sharper
The birds cry louder
The houses are homelier
And the women

22 November, 2021

Philosophy

Don’t think and work

The idea that you get paid for doing your own thinking (which I once regarded naively to be the job description of an academic philosopher). You can think anything, as long as… Your critical thinking is appreciated, provided that… There always has to be a forbidden door. And I am the kind of thinker that …

30 October, 2021

The good life

SpaceseX

Ever wondered what it is like to do it at great heights? Are you curious what it is like to mount your partner in a zero-gravity environment? Want to learn more about making love weightlessly? You have come to the right place: our company SpaceseX offers an exclusive round-trip to space for sexual partners. You …

26 October, 2021

Poetry

Tapas

I told her over tapas
That I have two papas

between olives and anschovis
Oh, well, c’est la vie

20 October, 2021

The good life

The saddest joke

When one of your parents unintentionally buys a single size mattress for a dual size boxspring but it doesn’t really matter because the other parent isn’t there anymore.

I saw it in a dream. It woke me up to take this note.

16 October, 2021

The good life

Old Europe? he crackled. Do you mean that historical collection of stones and a bunch of people who refuse to believe in it?

3 October, 2021

Poetry

Some like it hot

Some like it hot like an apple pie Like Jeff Besos flying in the sky, oh my Like the pants of someone who is telling a lie Like the heart of a gambler who throws a die Like a potato who knows he is going to fry Like a computer calculating a billion digits of …

3 October, 2021

Philosophy

There is a point where we go mad when we consider ourselves the agent of all our actions and a point where we go mad when we consider ourselves the agent of none of them. Free will is the perceived space in between. – kc

22 September, 2021

Poetry

Dark verse

I had a one night stand with pain I was unarmed, her flames licked my softest side, i said stop i said wait there is not enough night To fit the pain, not enough world to scorch i wonder if drunkenness can ever save a soul Don’t we want to blink at reality and the …

22 September, 2021

Activism

Let’s engage with websites!

I use the free website annotation tool hypothes.is to add comments to websites. Made for education, it can also “enhance” (for lack of a better word) public discourse. If nothing else, it makes you read articles more actively, like you’re engaging in a conversation with the author.

Example:

17 September, 2021

The good life

Decades of Sex

Sex in your teens is Censored
Sex in your twenties is Play
Sex in your thirties is Work
Sex in your forties is Sports
Sex in your fifties is Art
Sex in your sixties is Sports
Sex in your seventies is Work
Sex in your eighties is Play
Sex in your nineties is Censored

1 September, 2021

Philosophy

Or we would have to live forever…

Cioran once said that he was glad that the concept of suicide existed because otherwise, he would kill himself.

Perhaps this also applies to transhumanism: without the concept and idea that it is technologically not impossible, of eternal life, we would just have to live forever.

28 August, 2021

Activism

The only reason you are not a slave
is that you are more productive
if you are not a slave.

26 July, 2021

Essays

On writers

Be brief. There is no use for meandering sentences here. No rose garden esthetics. I have seen the writers for what they, all to many of them, are. Amateurs at narcissism. Where did it start? The desire to crack everything wide open. To put it all out there. The silly hope that there still is …

10 July, 2021

Laughs

Allahu Akbar
I wouldn’t go that far
I wouldn’t blow myself Up
To be a member of the club

∆

14 June, 2021

Philosophy

Honor and love – what else – defy the usurpation of meaning by the Story of capitalism, because they require the notion of “enough”

1 June, 2021

Activism

Peace is real

23 May, 2021

The good life

Origins Podcast with Werner Herzog

It is incredibly satisfying and important to listen to the greats:

19 May, 2021

Activism

How I invested in altcoins 1 day before the crash…

… and didn’t lose my nerves. Honestly, it was not fear of missing out that inspired me to invest in altcoins. I want the protocols that require exponentially less energy than Bitcoin’s Proof of Work to thrive. Empowering a global, decentralized, nimble banking platform is a prerequisite for speeding up many other necessary changes as …

16 May, 2021

The good life

Everything exists!

Here is the best advice for the 21th century: if you think you have a brilliant new idea, look it up on the Internet first. Chances are, there already exists something very similar. If newness was not your goal, all is not lost and you can still enjoy your idea. But if you get off …

4 May, 2021

The good life

Writer’s Routine

Found this on the Internet today (I am at “I”):

23 April, 2021

Philosophy

If we encounter something you don’t know, our brain goes in either a fearful guessing mode or a mode of joyful curiosity. I think we can practice that.