A Thousand and Twenty-Four Words On Progress
Two haikus on the end of modernity: We kill to escape, Then drink to forget. Progress — The life we’ve chosen. Obediently, We stop at the lights we’ve made — Seeing no others.
Tagged: Modernity
America Votes to End Modern Civilization
(Originally published in November 2012) Did you happen to catch the end of civilization on TV last week? The 2012 U.S. election will likely be judged by men thousands of years hence as a world historical event, on a par with the Peloponnesian War, the assassination of Julius Caesar, the Copernican Revolution or the Battle of Waterloo. If this seems hyperbolic to you, that...
America: Not Shining But Burning
The human mind naturally protects itself from considerations that would interrupt the appealing flow of everyday life. This fact alone explains the continued unwillingness of many thinking people to wonder aloud whether there is still hope for the survival of the United States of America as founded. Too early to voice such a dire concern, you say? On the contrary, it is far...