Brief note on intellectuals
It strikes me that the more talent someone has, the more likely they are to doubt and question it.
Archive for the ‘Sniper’ Category
Tears, tears
Filed under: Introspection / Sniper / Theory
September 21, 2009Reflecting on the way humans grow there seems to be two main paths.
The devils own
I remember a psychology column where a young girl asked the editor what she could do to help her 91-year old grandmother in the final stages of her life. Her granny had become ethereal, incoherent and calm. The young girl was at a loss towards the old womans complacency. The editor responded that it was [...]
Growing pains
As the music slowed I realised that it was the perfect setting for that particular song.
I have listened to it for over 20 years, but none of the previous times had even come close to mimicking the setting that song needed.
It made me think about growing pains. The sensation of growing and the things we [...]
Brief note on ecology
Filed under: Sniper
June 10, 2009The very concept of ecology seems to display a major flaw. The idea that our species can exist in nature without altering or imprinting it somehow is a bit like thinking that we can live without aging.
Visual mechanics
Following the ever controversial discussion about the nature of art I realised that bascially no one has realised that one of the very premises for creating art is all wrong; and thus whatever is said on the matter is a load of jibberish.
Art isn’t a product of reality. Art is not above or beyond life. [...]
Rift
Filed under: Sniper
April 15, 2009Before you are useful for anything, you have to know, with absolute certainty, that you are going to die. I think it was from Fight Club, and I think I paraphrased it wrong. But I still think it to be true.
Guilliotine logic
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009The french revolution put a final end to the knights ideal of humanity. The victors, the citizens, didn’t at all feel the compulsion to live by the virtues they had claimed and the virtues that once were held in high esteem by the knight society. What was once virtue had turned into a calculated art [...]
On advertising
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009Someone once (rightfully) noted that the definition of efficient advertising is to make you think that you’ve dreamt your whole life of something that you’ve never heard of before.
Affliction
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009All ideologies die of the same disease: Autoimmune poisoning via lies created within their own framework.
Key to happiness
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009Happiness is a simple matter of basic maths. You need to learn to add, but more importantly, you need to learn to subtract. Consider this: If you add something to what you already have – and add something that you desire, you will in all likehood be happy. Adding is carefree and easy, we do [...]
Hourglass figurines
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009The expression, “killing time” is a misunderstanding. You’re not killing time. It’s killing you, even if you might delude yourself to the contrary at times. But I wouldn’t know for sure. I haven’t said that, ever. Or did it, either. Action, creation and expression is the cure. Make your time worthwhile.
Beliefs
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009It is far easier for people to believe in others than believe in themselves. The first category are often found amongst the devout, the second are rarely found anywhere at all. Not truly. To not believe in yourself and not be able to believe in anything else either must be sheer hell. The emotional equivalent [...]
The difference machine
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009A difference in age between two people is a difference in seeing and shaping things. If this difference is too large, the gap in perception will never be able to be bridged fully, thus forcing the younger to adapt to something that person does not fully understand, and the older to constantly re-live the past. [...]
Vox populi
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009Ever since the general public has discovered that there is something called an ego, everyone seems to think they actually possess one.
The justice of furniture
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009It is said that in ancient Persia, the judges would sit on pillows sewn from the skinned backs of their corrupt, or unjust, predecessors. What a pity that this practice has long gone forgotten. I imagine our authorities to look out for the backs of the voters a lot better this way, in spite of [...]
Arithmetics of eating
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009When food was hard to come by, and bland, dining was about eating pure and eating to live. Modern food is packed with calories, but the same principle still applies. Eat, eat, eat. The regular citizen will eat breakfast between seven and eight, lunch between eleven to one, then once more after work, in the [...]
Snapshot, Monday, Spring
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009I don’t think about my life the way it could be if it would not be for the fact that it is what it is. Meaning: separating yourself from your past is impossible. Leaving it however, is essential.
On atheism
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009The fact that there is no God – really doesn’t change anything.
Unpopular equation
Filed under: Sniper
March 30, 2009Sometimes I think that the sum of all intelligence on earth is in fact, constant. The only variable is the number of its uses. Or users, perhaps.