i am my mother’s compliments
the heat of her clapping hands
compassion on an infinite vacation
Poetry
Quotes
In a world where aging backwards is possible, aging forwards becomes sexy.
The good life
This blog is discontinued, but the author is stil alive at kamielchoi.com
Writing
Free society (noun) – social organization in which only the rich can organize to pay less taxes.
Activism
We should not teach our children how to masturbate!
– Why not, sir?
Carnal pleasure should be rediscovered anew by every generation.
Laughs
Mightless words! Vehicles of nothing!
Like barking to a dying possum, be this a command, what would you do?
Writing
“Accomplishments” always means accomplishments in the context of other people. Otherwise we would speak of the accomplishments of volcanoes, rivers, neutron stars.
The good life
Definition of an Affluent society: a society in which everyone can understand what they do in their discretionary time as their identity, and is comfortable enough to like this identity.
Activism
The tiny sheepdog was very experienced, but the flock panicked and he died in the wool.
Poetry
Hate is the fear that your story won’t prevail.
Philosophy
Ezra Pound is the Kanye West of poetry.
The good life
A good challenge of our life
is to get into the right groove
right away
if we meet someone new
And to scratch the record
good
if we’re in the wrong groove
with the people of the past
The good life
In a monkey world, never apologize if you are the monkey who tries a different strategy – Choi Lei-Mak
The good life
Social Media inequality might become a bigger problem than wealth inequality. In a liberal society, it is easier to tax people than force them to have a certain taste and redistribute their likes and subscriptions. Yet social media inequality could become a source of immense frustration and a destabilizing factor once the world really moves …
Activism
Mightless words ! Vehicles of nothing
flapping their wings (in pain), clacking their beaks,
barking to a dying possum,
Poetry
Old Europe? he crackled. Do you mean that historical collection of stones and a bunch of people who refuse to believe in it?
The good life
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
Philosophy
The only reason you are not a slave
is that you are more productive
if you are not a slave.
Activism
Honor and love – what else – defy the usurpation of meaning by the Story of capitalism, because they require the notion of “enough”
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.
Philosophy
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it’s the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from …
The good life
A country is a story to structure collective pride.
The good life
The hallmark of being human is that we can carry a story within us that aspires to more than our own pleasure, to a goal beyond the satisfaction of what we momentarily desire
Activism
The best of lies make up the unstable truth for our unstable times
Activism