may12 in idea barrages

1.) The measure of an enlightened mind is the ability to admit when you’re wrong not double down and make denial a part of your identity schema.

2.) The news makes me feel angry. My day to day makes me feel lonely. My words give me strength but no direction in which to use it.

3.) Weirdly, chasing the idea of the world’s next sensation tends to shield one’s self from actual sensation.

4.) He used to be the greatest pie maker in the world but his skills were now out-mode-ed.

5.) Click the button to change the world. There. There you did it. It didn’t change anything of course but now you can think you did something.

6.) Kintsugi, the art of gilding repair points on the broken, is gorgeous but repaired enough times, when are you gilded patch all the way down?

7.) Is the rug in a day-room “carpet diem”?

8.) Whoever decided to call them “proctologists” instead of “colonists” just didn’t have a sense of humour at all.