Post Individualism

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince you that you are only free when you are an individual. Notes. 45yrs old, still here

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My friend the Twitter troll

Lives at home in a hole

Like a sad and lonely mole

He got an audience of three

Two of them are you and me

His momma buys his weed

But she never retweets his seed

This man needs another friend

Because he's a bellend

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I feel like an imposter

I had an idea then I lost her

I feel like a housecat in the zoo

Like I'm way too small for this crew

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Make you coffee after we screw

Kiss your hair just to follow through

Then I'll fuck it up, like I always do

[thirdity]

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

— Henry Miller, Nights of Love and Laughter

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"I remember the concept but not the reference. I am a write not an academic"

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“Take out the cliches … Don’t explain everything. Leave holes”

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Detail

I admire the writer who saturates the reader with detail, nuance and adjectives without rambling.

But I am not that kind of writer. I seek only the kernel, the insight within a detail. The world is awash with words and there is as much truth in a dewdrop as a river. 

I want nothing less than to summarise the universe in a throwaway sentence and move one as if it never happened.

If I fail, as I am bound to, at least the agony will be short.

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Listicles

"I don’t have a favourite colour. Nor do I remember my top ten memories in descending order. There is no hierarchy to my thoughts, no order to my desires. I am an ape not a spreadsheet, a human not a poll"

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Islands

"To dream of islands, whether with joy or in fear, is to dream of pulling away, of being already separate, far from any continent, of being lost and alone, or to dream of starting from scratch, recreating, beginning anew”

Deleuze

Yes Gilles, but what of you were born on an island?

[sexofword]

The problem is that you think there are only two ways of seeing everything. Yours and the enemy's. If you think things are simple, it's you, not the things.

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Love Song

I wanna hit you with the force of an asteroid from space

I wanna fall out of the sky right into your stupid face

I Hate You: Song by Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

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“The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.”

— Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

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Ratios

I do not think in words and if you think you do, maybe it is because you do not think at all. Words are for talking and talking always comes after thinking unless you do not think at all. It seems better to have many more thoughts than words if you can. 

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Friendly

Just a friendly warning about friendly warnings. They're never friendly

[philosophybits]

“Tolerance should be given to all religions that tolerate others, so long as their dogmas contain nothing contrary to the duties of citizenship.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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Choice

“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats”

Pablo Picasso

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Music

"The problem is that most instruments are square and music is always round”

Tom Waits