on evolution.

The Victorian middle-class citizens who formed the bulk of Freud’s patients had intensely strong wills, making it difficult for therapists to break through their ironclad defenses and their sense of what was right and wrong. Freud’s therapies had concentrated on ways to break through and let them see why they were neurotic and miserable, because once those people achieved insight, they could change rather easily. By mid century, though, people’s character armor was different. Wheelis' and his colleagues found that people achieved insight more quickly than in Freud’s day, but then the therapy often stalled and failed. Lacking the sturdy character of the Victorians, people didn’t have the strength to follow up on the insight and changer their lives.

— Baumeister and Tierney’s “Willpower”

made of November, by December

A Beautiful Girl Enters The Room You Are Listening To A Song She Says I Like This Song And You Say Yes I Also Like This Song And Then You Give Her A Meaningful Look And Say We Consume The Same Media Do You Want To Get Naked And Do Things To Each Other Do You Want To Live In The Same House And Care For Things That Belong To Both Of Us Do You Want To Pretend We Are On A Reality Show About Love

exploratorium disjunction (or where's Tesla when you need him?)

I need a record store that’s categorized by:

Bedroom Albums

Car Albums

Backyard Albums

3 Or More Windows Open Albums

Alone in the Living Room with the Record Player Albums, Windows Shut

One Friend Over Albums

Breakfast Table Albums (rare recordings)

Bathtub Albums (rarer recordings)

Music You Can Barely Hear Over the Running Water of the Shower But That’s How it Sounds Best Albums

Sleeping Albums

Sitting Alone on Your Couch at 2 PM Albums and

Music for When You Don’t Feel Like Listening to Music Albums 

competitive quotations, sin nombre

…man’s worst folly is a persistent attempt to adjust, smoothly, rationally, to the unthinkable, to the unbearable.

the credulous

“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of Greek myths to their private parts. I really do not care.”

—

Vladimir Nabokov on Sigmund Freud. #caseclosed 

some odd courage for the hard-boiled

"Jordan.
Jordan tattoos the words
FORGIVE ME
in thick black letters
down the inside of his arm
so that when he looks at his wrist
he will remember not to hate himself so much.
What he keeps forgetting
is that there is life after survival.”
-Buddy Wakefield, “Human the Death Dance"

. The whole tribe was wiped out.

The neighbours of the Nasamones are the Psylli - but they no longer exist. There is a story which I repeat as the Libyans tell it: that the south wind dried up the water in their storage tanks, so they were left with none whatever, as their territory lies wholly within the Syrtis. Upon this they held a council, and having unanimously decided to declare war on the south wind, they marched out to the desert, where the wind blew and buried them in sand. The whole tribe was wiped out.

More H-Rod (Herodotus)