Iconoclastical

“YEAH! LET’S ALL BE MILLIONAIRES! C’MON EVERYONE, WORK HARDER!”

Oh… but hang on…. then we’d all be… equal. 

Does that mean capitalism is really… communism?

On the fundamental attribution error

Life is better when we apply the same standards to others as we do to ourselves.

Do not let the reason you can’t decide what to do, be the reason you do nothing.

It strikes me that an awful lot of human endeavour is the struggle to understand a reality that is not ours to understand.

I don’t mean that we should give up, but to recognise that its somewhat arrogant to think we can know the immense chaos the world presents.

When we create a piece of art, we try to model the world, to find an inner truth; is this not the same for, say, scientific research?

All we ever have is tiny shards of insight, floating in a sea of knowledge as big as the universe itself.

Lately, I’ve been trying to summarise world events as simply as possible.

Too much money in too few hands.

I won’t ever change their minds. So I give up.

Instead, I shall just annoy them.

From now on, I won’t say ‘Jesus’, I shall say ‘the theory of Jesus’.

‘Theodicy’: a philosophical attempt to justify God’s benevolent nature. 

Far too close to ‘Idiocy’, no?

Sometimes I think that Mark Chapman was a time traveller, attempting to save us from a horrible christmas tune that Lennon hadn’t written yet. 

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(every xmas, Paul McCartney’s “simply having a wonderful christmas time” drives me crazy).