John Cage and Chaos
Cage and Chaos “The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”...
Nietzsche’s eternal return – and its eternal answer
Nietzsche thought that Christianity’s chief perversion was its inability to appreciate life as it was; he thought we were always pining after some abstract, cold,...
The Humble Brag and Humility
There’s a running joke that if you ask someone where they go to college, and they say “in Boston,” they go to Harvard or MIT,...
Pity Parties and Paradox
“Pity makes suffering contagious” – that was Nietzsche’s take on it. Nietzsche, perhaps above all else, hated what he termed the ‘will to nothingness;’ he...