9 Pieces of Wicked Wisdom

‘Something Like The Truth’, Vol. 1 #2: The world is a strange and wondrous place, and here are small insights meant to capture some of its abstract mystery — to be followed up soon.

Some look out to the world and see themselves; others look inside to see the world.

POLITICS IS WHAT’S LEFT AFTER EVERYTHING REAL IS STRIPPED AWAY.

Give a fool a million dollars and soon a million people will have a dollar.

80% of what people call intentional or a conspiracy is either neglect, incompetence or cluelessness.

IF YOUR ONLY TOOL IS A HAMMER, IT IS TEMPTING TO TREAT EVERYTHING LIKE A NAIL. (from the “Law of the Instrument” — theory of Abraham Maslow of the famous “Maslow’s Hierarchy”)

Smoke isn’t fire; most of the time it’s a cigarette or a dust devil, for God’s sake. Calm the fuck down.

So you’ve told me that Truth is an outdated concept and that my adherence to it marks me as inflexible and self-righteous. I replaced it with authenticity. Your move.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is not king — he’s a heretic, a lunatic, and he will be jailed and isolated. A team will be put together to refute anything he is saying. (my riff on the ‘Biblical Paraphrases’ from Erasmus, Dutch Catholic scholar in the Renaissance, 16th century, original in the Old Testament, Book of Genesis: ‘In the street of the blind, the one-eyed man is the Guiding Light.’ H.G. Wells reimagined the concept in his 1904 short story, ‘In the Country of the Blind.’)

Perception is NOT reality, but it’s been wished into being by the Tyrants of the Appropriate and now it‘s a pretty damn convincing knock-off. Word on the street — Reality is pissed and looking for a new gig. We’re in some deep shit.