It’s not about what you do. It’s about what you don’t do because of it.
Philosophy
Quotes
whatever can be explained by inertia shouldn’t be explained by a conspiracy
Philosophy
In the end, we are all big-brained monkeys with a limited capacity.
The good life
Is literary writing the art of making cultivated loneliness feel like engaging conversation?
Philosophy
“A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful form; they resemble each other and there is nothing easier than to mistake one for the other.”
From: The Joke by Milan Kundera
Philosophy
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
The good life
There are more things between foreplay and orgasm, fellatio, than dreamt of in your philosophies.
Laughs
OMG! If only there was enough mind to boggle!
The good life
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw
The good life
we observe the armistice
between our shadows
today,
we live in a world
of small things
Poetry
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. – G. K. Chesterton
The good life
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis
The good life
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. – H. P. Lovecraft
The good life
All that energy that could be used to work together to improve the human condition, goes to competing for hungry eyeballs.
Activism
Yes! I want the whole world to know
I delight more in the kiss you throw
than in {Kim Kardashian’s} fellatio
Poetry
Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing,
How love that passes is enough.
Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead and how
In the grave all love shall sleep
Love is aweary now
– James Joyce
Poetry
Was an effort made to create this? Was an effort made to overcome this? Is good art the capitulation of the artist?
The good life
Don’t underestimate the power of pretty scientific models! On the catwalk of the universe they are all we have.
Activism
the I is a by-light
a grievance by a wild fire
the grammar of layered time
Philosophy
The problem with an inferiority complex is that those affected by it look down on their own knowledge. This strongly impedes their ability to take in new knowledge because they cannot integrate it with what they already know.
The good life
The meaning of life is thus a bit like playing with a live hand grenade. Once you pass it on to somebody else, you are safe. – Yuval Noah Harari
The good life
Don’t ask what Putin can do for you, ask what you can do for Putin – D. Trump
Laughs
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of Mr. Hoagland’s first poetry collection. It is “Sweet Ruin,” not “Sweet Rain.”
Poetry
“You are colonizing a place in my mind that i didn’t know existed before, so, can i call it home?”
Poetry