Luminous Snail

It’s hard to explain but in order to be a really good racist you have to low key love every race.

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On foggy mornings I find it hard to tune my air guitar.

1943 Mars Bar advertisement

I wonder if the racism taboo will eventually come to be seen everywhere as quaint, old-fashioned, archaic even, like Victorian attitudes to sex and bodily functions.

Don't touch that, it's a load-bearing delusion.

One of the hardest things about Catholicism is accepting Gods unwavering love for you. Very easy to accept that you are unloveable it means you don’t have to try you can give up you’re worthless but if you are always loved it means you always have a responsibility and a duty

The only way to morally justify the existence of flatulent crabby middle-aged and old people is through their support and protection of the young and joyful. An ancient truth recently forgotten to terrible, terrible consequence.

Roman Jakobson on 1917 (from My Futurist Years)

Christopher Alexander on views

It's a curious and, perhaps, telling fact that what we experience as meaningful is inextricably linked to mystery.

If there is hope, it lies in the Welsh

Before I begin the presentation I’d like to acknowledge that we are on stolen giant ground sloth land.

@FoundersPodcast Planet Books in Long Beach

What’s the best used bookstore in LA?

I would buy the David Goggins book: “How I learned to relax.”

@david_perell One of my PhD Econometrics professors said, wisely, "You always understand your next to last econometrics class." That is, you have to go to more advanced material to understand the simple material. And you never grasp your last class in the subject.

I hope one day there’ll be a book on Trump as good as Robert Caro’s books on Lyndon Johnson. Seems unlikely I’ll live to read it though given that Caro’s volume covering LBJ’s actual Presidency still isn’t out… Real history takes a while to write.

You are supposed to fly a nations flag upside down to signal distress, and I think the fact that nobody even notices when our flag is upside down is a metaphor.

Rituals build agency.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. - Rumi