The easier it is to communicate...

...the more relationships become disposible. The ease of communication in the short term has made lasting relationships more difficult. We can just remove them from our buddy list. after all, the more time we spend online, the less time we spend in the real world, giving more weight to the relationships we form online. this will inevitably lead to digital tribalization and social segmentation as we more easily eliminate potential unperfects. then we will have wars. small ones. digital ones, but people will die.

for the record...

...i don't support gun control, and believe in the 2nd amendment.
i believe that government is too big.
i believe that taxes should be lower.
i believe that exessive regulation hurts people.
i believe that terrorism is a terrible crime and must be stopped.
i believe that america is the greatest country in the history of the planet, and that's not just because I'm an american.

however...

I believe that the "conservatives" of today are a bunch of CORRUPT SHITHEADS, and it's this army of IGNORANT, ARROGANT ASSHOLES that make us all look like a bunch of STUPID LITTLE KIDS waving around guns and making fun of the kids that can't afford nice clothes.

...it's these dickwads that will destroy america...and i really hate them for it. i like it here.

...of course, because I dare say anything that doesn't fit in lock-step with their stated agenda, I'm a "liberal". No, shithead, I'm an AMERICAN! Not that you remember what that is.

winning isn't everything...

...it's nothing. excellence is an illusion and perfection is an imposibility. mistakes are inevitable. the competition will eventually beat you. performance is transient. there is always a bigger fish. there are always smaller fish. there is always somebody who plays the game better. there is always another game you don't even know how to play. there is always another form of competition. you can't be the winner. winning is an illusion. losing is an illusion. there are only achievements. goals that you set, pursue, and reach. if you are too focused on winning, you might find yourself pursuing goals that are important only because there is competition involved. if you try to be better than other people, fine. just don't be surprised when I'm not impressed when you answer the question "better than other people at what?"

the greatest achievement....

...was once and for a time, a dream. I remember hearing these words when I was young, the meaning lost with cold repetition. we end up not even saying the whole sentence. "once and for a time a dream". it could have been "once upon a time" and I wouldn't have noticed the difference. I saw a notebook, a diary, one of the expensive ones at barnes and noble, with those words on it today. I almost fell back into ignoring the meaning, but I didn't. instead, i thought about my dreams, and about how easy it is to forget that the greatest achievement i will ever make may be one of those dreams.

...speaking of dreams, i had one last night. I was in a bathroom with all these weird toilets and my penis was about 15 or 16 inches long. it was cool.

In between stagnation...

and chaos is an edge. structured. fast-paced. dynamic. changing. the ultimate expression of movement. it is in this small crack that we wobble back and forth over, from stagnation to chaos, chasing this manifest perfection, this ultimate potential. everything is ordered, but nothing is static. everything is moving, but nothing is out of range. it is a place where we can stay ahead of our time while still using what has always worked in the past. where we can honor tradition through modernism. a place where the effort is minimal and the effects are amplified. a place where, once you are there, people want to follow you. I spend too much time trying to find this place. I'm begginning to think it doesn't really exist.