Archive for the 'Overactive Imagination' Category

Personal writings: 2004-06-22

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I was probably having a bad day. The day after my birthday, curiously. I still have days like this.
Anti-social
I. You. Them. Us.
Society is … the average of all the people you know. It is the melange of all the media you ingest. It is the virus in your computer, and in your blood, and in […]

Personal Writings: 2001-01-23

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I did a little meditation earlier this evening before going out with a friend. When I am clearing my thoughts I often envision a flat, deserted plain, almost like a dried seabed, and a night sky of only stars. I imagined also a dead tree with an Eagle, and a rock with a Lizard, and […]

My Head Confuses Itself With My Mind

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

It’s a sobering day when you realize that you’re not going to storm the gates of the world at the front of a vanguard of heroic compatriots, assured of your victory of vitalism and virtue over the stalled momentum of the progress of the old ways. When you admit that it’s all a big mess, […]

The Coming Darkness

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

When I started this web site, I was in the midst of a period of hopeful optimism. An optimism inspired by self-delusion, and not a little indulgent escapism. I was under the influence of false confidence, wherein I found myself able to believe that I had finally learned how to effect real positive change in […]