Tag Archives: Culture

From the Vault of Dust

Dust, dust everywhere, and its movements entire worlds and shapeless defining and redefinition of worlds. Every speck of things a brilliant possibility, even the dust swept aside and beneath things beckoning to unheard of possibilities.More

Because of the Basic Idea

It was the basic idea that had us rapt. Beyond that, we were not impressed; All of the ways he waved his hands Showing us just how it would work Barely made us budge from our seats. Something about cold made heat, About traveling with the momentum of heat, Something about a new planet A…More

Nevertheless

Nevertheless I have the confidence that life can continue through muck, shit, and what is neither muck nor shit but is instead a recalcitrant stopping-point, a point at which, even if you would not wish to stop, even if you would not dare stop here, you must stop.Nevertheless the company is something fulfilling, the company…More

All Perishing All Divine

When we accidentally step on an insect (I know, for some it is not an accident), we see the life gone from it in an instant. What was now a creeping, crawling, flittering thing is now a dead thing at your feet, whether we stop to wonder at and praise the thing for its life…More

A.I. Wondering

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan Kay We can be sure that everything that encourages our participation on the internet today is somehow contributing to the development and further refining…More

That Thing on the TV (a short short short)

Simon: Dammit! This thing is smithereens, now. Don: Well, quit messing with it! Why was it so important in the first place? We got to go! This’ll be good for you, too. Simon: There was something on the news, something about colona– Don: Colon! Now that’s not newsworthy! Unless it’s mine!  Dr. Hawthorne always have…More

Cultures of Thought

Each thought, and the cultivation of that thought, has its proper time.  Without cultivation, a thought may visit, may inspire, may suddenly illumine, but chances are it will not form the basis of a culture, a practice, a labor.  Labor not only in the sense of work and craft, the honing of skill and the…More