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Showing posts with label Random snippets. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Lex Anteinternet: I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you.

Lex Anteinternet: I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Ra...

I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you.

I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

Flannery O'Connor

Monday, October 7, 2024

Lex Anteinternet: Mondays

Lex Anteinternet: Mondays:  

Mondays


 There is nothing so dispiriting as coming into your "good" office job after a weekend of working cattle.

Friday, July 12, 2024

Lex Anteinternet: Elemental activities.

Lex Anteinternet: Elemental activities.

Elemental activities.

Indeed, if I had power for some thirty years I would see to it that people should be allowed to follow their inbred instincts in these matters, and should hunt, drink, sing, dance, sail, and dig, and those that would not should be compelled by force. 

Hilaire Belloc

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Our Only Home.

Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.

William Shatner, actor.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Lex Anteinternet: The idea of a vocation.

Lex Anteinternet: The idea of a vocation.

The idea of a vocation.

The idea of vocation attaches to work a cluster of other ideas, including devotion, skill, pride, pleasure, the good stewardship of means and materials. Here we have returned to intangibles of economic value. When they are subtracted, what remains is ‘a job,’ always implying that work is something good only to escape.

Wendell Berry.

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or les...

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or les... :  Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part...