a wanderer's shadow travels further than a wanderer does

a wanderer walks a straight line, a shadow must follow the curves, cliffs, and valleys of the ground

civilizations are the things we collectively do to forget it's all nothingness

My name is Inigo Montoya. You keeled my father, prepare to do community service.

I am on starbucks wifi. They asked for my email to use it. Some IT guy somewhere is probably wondering why my email is [email protected]

Capitalism cannot domesticate me.

twin barren islands
beheld but never harbored
ghosts of what could be

(a silly haiku riddle by me)

The words I want to say to power do not exist in any language.

We need to buy up all the empty churches that citizens are leaving en masse, and convert them into dungeons & dragons groups, LAN parties, LARPing centers, queer clubs, kink parties, movie nights, craft & hobby spaces.

It's strange knowing that I am a predator at the top of the food chain, who can basically outwalk its victims, pushing its prey to the point of exhaustion. Like I'm objectively terrifying, but I don't feel terrifying. I feel like a little guy who wants head pats and to be told he's a good boy. UwU

Last night I intended to look up "Hume's Guillotine" -- but I accidentally spelt "Home Guillotine"

By surprise, I discovered that I can buy real, working guillotines -- for my home!

#philosophy

we're in someone's ancient past

Does anyone ever wonder how historians hundreds or thousands of years from now will talk about events we're living through?

Imagine reading a history book in the 30th century explaining the addition of the word "yeet" to the English language.

"a magician never reveals his tricks" -- me as a 7 year old before immediately infodumping how all my magic tricks worked

I present to you, meta-utilitarianism:

the most ethical action is the one that maximizes the existence of utilitarians

#philosophy #ethics #utilitarianism #morality