If you want to understand human be… You need Sigmund Freud If you want to understand Freud You need Jacques Lacan If you want to understand Lacan
I was the first ever lobster discovered in the wild with a rubber band around my claw clamping it shut
The only reason that people wear clothes is because they have language
If you leave well enough alone for long enough you’ll have enough to make you cry
If you start with being, then Being is meaningless But meaning is never without being Because meaning always comes first
The Kantian ethic of treating oth… never really took off largely because Immanuel overlooke… rather obvious catchy slogan: Love squanders all
Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that
We have religion for the heart and science for our brains but the head and the heart are afraid of each other because there’s nothing for the ne…
We treat life as if Postponing the inevitable When we should be busy Preparing for the inestimable
For now American democracy such as it is is still getting the people it deserves
As the boat overfilled with refuge… was turned away from the harbor each of the onshore demographic gr… had their own routinized, ruthless… but surrounded by my own
Now you only get to choose which hill you’re going to comply on
Nothing is Risk-free Except hell
In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…
Caught between a rock and a hard p… we will sink or swim: Sink like a rock or swim in a hard place– the opposite of walking on water–