Cerulean Blue: the color of the future
The more Buddhism I read, the more I realize it's really just a form of Bearable Pessimism. Therefore I like it.
Next week: I reduce Taoism to a t-shirt slogan (something along the lines of, "Consciousness is easy. Yodeling in Cantonese while fending off a leopard attack is hard".)
I'll also be unveiling the next big trend in philosophy: humorously unironic re-modernism. Architecture will be transformed, history reformed. Technology? It'll take a huge leap sideways thanks to philosophy and the neuro-artistry of tomorrow: Geneticists...crazy, fucked-up geneticists...combine the latest strides in mind-design with the plastic world of consumer products. Look, it's a cell-phone that thinks! A lamp that questions the meaning of it's pointless existence! It'll be a world of hilarity when inanimate objects share our existential woe. W...why are you crying little toaster?
Next week: I reduce Taoism to a t-shirt slogan (something along the lines of, "Consciousness is easy. Yodeling in Cantonese while fending off a leopard attack is hard".)
I'll also be unveiling the next big trend in philosophy: humorously unironic re-modernism. Architecture will be transformed, history reformed. Technology? It'll take a huge leap sideways thanks to philosophy and the neuro-artistry of tomorrow: Geneticists...crazy, fucked-up geneticists...combine the latest strides in mind-design with the plastic world of consumer products. Look, it's a cell-phone that thinks! A lamp that questions the meaning of it's pointless existence! It'll be a world of hilarity when inanimate objects share our existential woe. W...why are you crying little toaster?
posted by Samwick @ 5:40 AM
3 Comments:
At 10:47 AM,
Impulsivecompulsive said…
If cell phones could think, they'd be gossipy little buggers. And if toasters could cry, I'd be electrucuted.
I think I'm not on board with this.
At 9:32 AM,
Snave said…
I may have to become an adherent to the Church of Appliantology (see F. Zappa, "Joe's Garage"), run by L. Ron Hoover.
Matt, I like the concept of seriously short reviews, whether it be books, films... religions... Good work!
At 10:55 PM,
Girl With An Alibi said…
I was going to say that I just experienced enlightenment, and the bulb in my lamp blew out... so not really so much now.
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