3.27.2009

So, then...




Adaptability is more necessary now than ever.

Age and wisdom have nothing to do with each other.

A life of moral dissolution is often your best bet for survival.

All majorities are corrupt.

All relationships are doomed.

All saints are psychotic.

All your stories are the same story.

Ambition is a plague.

Art is for educated people only.

Art is more precious than life.

Artists should be allowed maximum ego.

Beautiful people are the most mistrustful.

Beauty should be harvested.

Belief is arbitrary.

Biological urges are not impossible to avoid.

Boredom is the strongest life force.

Capitalism is a lottery.

Censorship makes life more difficult.

Certainty is too expensive.

Conflict creates happiness.

Contentment is death.

Contradiction is natural.

Convenience is a killer.

Conventional wisdom should always be revised.

Cruelty can be life affirming.

Cruelty is hereditary.

Culture accelerates with technology.

Death is sometimes your best alternative.

Denial is an ineffective means of survival.

Destiny and fate are poor excuses.

Emotions cannot be trusted.

Entropy will have its way with you.

Equality is for suckers.

Even the very wealthy are bought and sold.

Even your best ideas are contrived.

Even your best intentions are evil.

Everybody lies.

Everyone is addicted.

Everyone is capable of criminal activity.

Everyone is physically challenged.

Everyone is withholding information.

Everything is mostly space.

Exceptional people are the unlucky ones.

Fear of consequence prevents you from acting on your desires.

Friendship is as important as food.

Happiness is chemical.

Happy people are the most vulnerable targets.

Hardening yourself against suffering is soul-destroying but impossible to avoid.

Human obsolescence comes more quickly nowadays.

Indifference should not be mistaken for charisma.

Indifferent people have all the power.

It is better not to know what you are talking about.

It’s easy to forget what you really want.

It’s healthy to want to rebel against everything.

It’s natural to want to reject reality.

It’s useless to argue.

It’s wise to be suspicious of people who are nice.

Laws are made to place blame.

Lazy people are the most misunderstood.

Legality discourages trust.

Liberty is a danger.

Love comes more easily to the less particular.

Love is a good way to control people.

Love is easy to dismiss if you know how.

Lovers are the most easily disappointed people.

Masturbation is big business.

Masturbation is healthier than sex.

Men and women are compatible.

Morality is not an end.

Most people are addicted to euphemism.

Most people have no idea what they are doing.

Nothing is decided by committee.

No amount of work will save you from blame.

No one can diagnose your problems accurately.

No philosophy is complete.

Optimists are easy to trick.

Other people know more about you than you know about yourself.

Other people will operate as your conscience if you let them.

People are more similar than different.

People are not alone enough.

People are true believers in artifice.

Perception is subjective.

Politicians have got to be kidding.

Real sadness only comes from inside.

Religion is a behavior control industry.

Religious people lack perspective.

Repetition can bring comfort.

Repressing your desires is the right thing to do.

Reproduction is your first priority.

Smart people know to embrace disorder.

Social responsibility begins with cynicism.

Strangers are often the most trustworthy people.

Success promotes suspicion.

Suffering allows for beauty.

Tenderness comes more easily to fragile people.

The best governments are the ones that ignore you.

The biological impulse is nothing to be ashamed of.

There are no innocent bystanders in the eyes of the law.

There is wisdom in fear.

Total apathy is a big responsibility.

Trust is laughable.

Very few people are good at their jobs.

Very few things will always be.

Wealth and beauty earn you the privilege of being stupid.

Wealth is nothing to envy.

We are all time travelers.

We are destroyed by our bodies.

We humor those around us until we go mad.

We need a less productive world.

You are at your best when your unconscious.

You are closer to nature than you suspect.

You are crippled by your desire.

You are the victim of lies if you believe what you say.

You can blame all your problems on your brain.

You can count on your fondest wishes being ignored.

You can forget about paradise.

You never consider the consequences of success.

Your crime is that you believe you are innocent.

Your emotions will embarrass you sooner or later.

You’re stupid if you don’t fight your emotional impulses.

Your faith and erudition won’t keep you from being an animal.

Your leaders are impotent without you.

Your opinions make you stupid.

Your strongest compulsions are the ones to ignore.

Your worst fears are confirmed when you get what you want.

You wouldn’t stand a chance if you didn’t sell out.


Dedicated to the memory of Daniel P. Brack.

1 comment:

fabgear said...

This I can get behind. If I did needlepoint I'd but each one on a pillow.