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Repeating some of what others said, but want to take a stab at it. I think about this a lot and can never quite satisfactorily say what I want to so h...

I agree that a choice is not a real choice if it is uninformed by how things actually are. As far as I can tell, you’re using ‘hegelian’ simply to mea...

As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as though to protect What it advertises. A...

New (& final) poem: Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror The stanzas are enormous, so I'll use a " ---" to indicate page breaks within stanzas. The poem t...

Until everybody Gets some advantage, big or little Some reason for having come So far Without dog or woman So far alone, unasked.

It has no taste and though it refreshes absolutely It is a cup that must also pass

But this was a moment Under the most cheerful sun. In poorer lands No one touches the water of life.

So lucky Now we really know It all happened by chance: A chance encounter The dwarf led you to to the end of a street And pointed flapping his arms in...

Quick dicing & splicing for the basic idea: (it mirrors the Atlantic article from the OP in a lot of places): I can't tell (no background knoweldge) i...

It’s a really interesting time to be alive, if nothing else good. This is a good resource for China's perspective on the whole thing. (Especially, thi...

But the real story, the one They tell us we shall probably never know Drifts back in bits and pieces All of them, it turns out

And meanwhile my story goes well The first chapter endeth

Yeah! I’ve used the metaphor of an airlock before (I suppose it’s just a way of saying a fly at the bottleneck) but the doing is what shows, and if yo...

It has to be read out loud, during a solstice. Please do not read otherwise.

I’m trying to think of how to respond without speaking in recidivist Cartesian poetry but it seems I can’t, so here is one, called ‘Protect Brittania’...

I'm not sure what you would consider a coherent argument, but I suspect it would be something like 'set forth in such a way that it is already anticip...

It has shut itself out And in doing so shut us accidentally in

I beg you to listen You are already listening

Afterwards when I tell you It's as though it all only happened As siding of my story

Christ, apo, if one were to read just your half of the exchange, they'd think I only said things like 'science can't explain feelings.' I half-think y...

Look, I'm not against learning patterns & I'm not saying one should gear one's life toward maximizing surprise. It would be a poor carpenter who met e...

I have to push back here. I took great pains to explain my position and how it is neither 'subjectivist' or 'objectivist' (your terms). I don't have m...

Of course, both Fukuyama and Marx were influenced (to dramatically understate it) by Hegel. I suspect that the 'true dichotomy' is a certain way of me...

To be clear my objection is neither 'subjectivist' not 'objectivist', but thoroughly pragmatic, though perhaps not in the way Peirce meant it. It is a...

I guess I'm supposed to be a 'subjectivist' who refuses to 'escape the cartesian dialectic' because that would mean I could no longer write poems. Whi...

To rub it out, make it less virulent And a stab too at rearranging The whole thing from the ground up. Yes we were waiting just now Yes we are no long...

New poem: Oleum Misericordiae

I don't think 'pragmatism' is a dirty word, Apo. I've been reading William James all week and deeply enjoy his writing. Nor did I have plans to 'blath...

If so, I will respond. But I want to make sure I understand first.

If someone posts a bunch of pictures of them doing skateboard tricks. And then I say, looks like you've been photographing yourself doing skateboard t...

tldr; I think it's crucial to understand that, among adults, arguments are often (usually?) about different ways of synthesizing the ten thousand thin...

It's hard to think of a more canonical 'romantic' figure than Wordsworth and his Prelude is, explicitly, a long meditation on how the world and self a...

To sense this clearly is not to know it, alas - Today the directions arrive from many separated realms Conjoining at the place of a bare pedestal. Too...

Do you remember how we used to gather The woodruff, the woodruff? But all things Cannot be emblazoned, but surely many Can, and those few devoted By a...

I'll leave you to it, Apo, happy trails.

Not trying to be funny - it's too pointed to be funny, I'd imagine - and too pointed to be properly mocking either. It's trying to understand a way-of...

He said, knowing the right way to spend a Saturday was, of course, relieving the growing pressure of a system-in-a-vacuum, by compulsively describing ...

Thanks man. No real reason for the form. I had some kind of writing energy that day and wrote a bunch of gibberish that kept shifting around - this ca...

It is impossible to picture the firmness Of relationships then. The slack Was by definition taken up, and so Everything was useful. People died Deligh...

Cares or uses the little station any more. They are too young to remember How it was when the late trains came in. Violet sky grazing the gray hill-cr...

But what I mean is there's no excuse For always deducing the general from particulars, Like spots on that sun. How many Helpless wails have slid out o...

"Climate" isn't a sign, but it could be A by-product, an anonymous blue-collar suburb In the great mildness that has taken over the air With snapping ...

I wrote a poem-ish thing today & I figured this thread is as good a place as any to share it: It doesn't have a title but I guess I'll call it: Spring...

Thus all good intentions remain puny Consigned as they are to the cold dews And nagging climates of a life's blood. Does grave dawn drape in a pattern...

And for those who understand: We shifted the day, until there was no more Coming out of the situation we had so imitated. And now we had talked of it ...

New Poem : All and Some

1. If the prospect of alien contact is especially relieving, then: 2. Imagine a world where aliens never come 3. If (2) is painful, consider why it's ...

Empirical moral datum (a ‘report’): I've found that my moral epiphanies are both (1) very emotional (literally epiphanic, 'revealed)' and (2) usually ...