The triumph of greed is not simply a matter of moral collapse but the sad, sick flowers of history, a dark blossoming in which the most heinous acts of selfish, self-determining political and corporate identity serve as an optimal transmission medium for forces and flows that precede us, exceed us, and remain beyond our ken […]
The trouble is that every path winds through a carnival of fools. Not because the world is malicious, but because the coordinates of sense are infinite, and what maps cleanly in one quadrant looks deranged in another. Language and habit do the dirty work—each person carrying their own system of signals, every encounter a clash […]
Have you noticed that those who make the grandest historical and global assertions of identity and imperialistic might are generally (and self-evidently) driven by the most pitifully base and selfish motivations? In one sense, this is a function of the vast and sprawling networked information and communications systems we inhabit quite naturally and necessarily drifting […]
Love is a game best played by fools and in the end we are all played as so many fools by love.
…the beauty of this art is also the beauty of our minds and the myriad ways that pattern and concept so sweetly, seductively deceive us all. How easily our eyes, our minds, are fooled and how fast an impulse is invoked by the simplest of strokes and a surrender to sweet and wilful projection. We […]
We may have been exquisitely unlucky in our shared selections from a poverty of all available leadership choices…
Daedelus Kite 