Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
Shopping is Not Creating.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they’re still getting real food.
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they’ll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON.
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that’s not even art, but something universal and bigger.
I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You’d think we’d give the issue a little more thought than we do.
A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
I know it’s not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
If you’re not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you’re not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you’re wasting your day.
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it’s going to disappear completely.
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.