“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Dentures

"Our minds can be wonderful, but at the same time they can be our very worst enemy. They give us so much trouble. Sometimes I wish the mind were like a set of dentures, which we could take out and leave on our bedside table overnight. At least we would get a break from its tiring and tiresome escapades." --Sögyal Rinpoche

Hahaha!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For reals.
Just take out the amygdala in particular and put it in a glass next to the bed. Rinse that shit out.

P.S. Loving Hyperobjects. It's dope.
Would you agree that the Early Modern ships--the ones that distribute slaves and syphilis--also inaugurate the Anthropocene? Race as a hyperoject?

And now that I've read Hyperobjects: FOR SURE HOG CAFOs AND THE LIQUID MANURE PRODUCED BY THEM COMPRISE A HYPEROBJECT.
Viscous, everywhere, in the food we eat, in the widescale destruction. Sorry for all caps, but I used to wonder this... and now I know.