Musing After Getting One's Fingers Burned

Having one's prejudices confirmed is the best cure for bigotry: it so enlightens one.

Intensity - that is to attend to every question like a bomb disposal expert: carefully but quickly; against the backdrop of terror.

Recorded music is a bird in a cage,
A wolf on a leash, and a man in a prison.

Transmission is the ghost in the machine.

The original is the grit in the 'Ding an sich' that begats
The pearl in the ear.

There is no such thing as absolute silence.
There is always a background noise, be it ever so soft ...

A good reason to live is also a good reason to die - [Nietzsche].

How to master this temptress life which eternally witholds its future fruit, even as we bite into its mysterious flesh

And yet they secretly know that every career ends in failure.

Rebellion is but a Sisyphusian adventure - there and back again, ad infinitum.

Can we have sufficient distance from our-selves to amaze our-selves?

It is vital to keep the demos ill-informed, de-informed and un-formed.

 If people considered animals as people, would they treat them worse as people than they do now as animals?

Philosophy begins with the sense of awe. 

And she concludes with, 'I've seen it all before.' 

Because we cannot get beyond ... interpretation?

Thinkers beware, lest ye all, "whither into the truth.", as Yeats saith,

There is so much power in the Eye ('I').

That sin-gular word 'I' covers a multitude of sins.

Should Socrates have taken the hemlock?

One can always learn from adversity, and there is strength in learning: AKA the school of hard knocks.

He is most free who has nothing to lose: he is most feared too.

He was the stuff of Mehrabian nightmares - body language cutting up rough -
While he sat in a corner, innocently unawares.

You say that truth is that which 'works'; - what, are there no lazy truths?

You need energy to have great ideas?
How many great ideas were borne of idleness?

Great ideas are servants to truths.
The former sweat and toil while the latter luxuriate.

It is better to know nothing than to know really useful things.

I will never believe in a god who can't dance - [Nietzsche]

Only the pagan gods are worth worshipping - because by doing so we worship ourselves in all our imperfections.

There is, and has never been, a 'healthy' music.
A subdued rage, music is born of sickness.

Circe used sound for good reason - there is no greater lure for men.
It makes pigs of us all.

Sound and fury signifying ... the empty percussive sound his tongue makes when it strikes his palette mid platitude?

Peace is not easing but dis-easing ...

Filthy money furthers music's infection. Circe again.

Originality in art?

Whole lot of 'Grangerism' going on!

Keep it simple?

There is nothing simple about 'it'.

Is it really best to say nothing about that which one cannot speak?

We want neither pessimism nor optimism; - what, do we want neither power nor its lack?

We want truth, fools that we are.

Justice herself is not deemed but demeaned, for she is ever - like her sister, Truth, - irredeemable.

Everybody has one book in them, and it may not even be theirs. Just another footnote to Plato.

How can one 'revalue all values' when one still esteems?

Such a revaluation requires a profound and searching ... Nihilism.

Esteem no-thing.

'Christianity is Platonism for the People' - [Nietzsche]

It is the Bible that makes the English so English, and therefore so moral, and so ... mediocre.

Beauty isn't moral - i.e., good or bad; therefore nor are deeds beautiful or ugly.

Eliminate your means so as to reduce your ends, i.e., your desire? - but is that not too a ... desire?

Only ex-istence which cuts against the grain stands out - all else is swallowed up by the warp and weft.

And alternatives evoke further alternatives, ad infinitum ... the exponentiality of words.

We are free in our dreams, and so do we wake therefore into chains?

To 'live unseen' does not mean to live hidden.

The most famous are the most unknown, while every worm is tagged and logged.

Axe Eye: the eye is the first instrument, the first creation of thought.

It cuts a lucid swathe into swart existence.

'Friend' and 'fiend' are from the same root.

Nietzsche said that if truth is a woman, then [male] philosophers have proved themselves to be hopeless woowers of women.

 

This existence is just a hairline crack in the vast eternal wall of nothingness.

And death is a plasterer.