Homage to Icarus

I’m cur­rently suf­fer­ing from putting my insom­nia to good use (so far I’ve installed Tracks), so I’ll take the time to post some ran­dom thoughts:

I was bit­ten by April Fools twice today. The sec­ond time because I was too exhausted to remem­ber that it was April Fools.
A life with­out hope is not wasted or a pity […]

Irony = Hypocrisy + Self-awareness.
Of course, this only applies to your own irony/hypocrisy, not that ascribed to you from oth­ers  —  i.e. the irony of a locally famous activist at a hip-hop show nod­ding along with every­one else isn’t actu­ally irony or hypocrisy because he hasn’t staked out a posi­tion either above every­one else or opposed to […]

The other night I was think­ing about fear (in case you’re won­der­ing, I do that instead of sleep­ing). See, I have these Socratic debates in my head, wherein I deter­mine which side of the debate sounds  —  on the whole  —  less mind-fuckingly insane to me, and then I refine it, and blend in the less crazy parts of […]

Nothing is unbreak­able
No sys­tem is per­fect
There is always another way
Given proper inquiry, the way can be found
The future lies in the pos­si­bil­ity
Where any­thing is pos­si­ble
This is what we for­got on 9/11.