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| User: | fabianwhig (15410171)  My Heart is an Autoclave
A Journal of Creative Destruction and Other Necessary Reforms |
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| Name: | Son of a Golden Apple | |
| Bio: |    Favored Academic Topics: Languages, Economics, Physics, Evolutionary Psychology, Skepticism, Modern Literature, Semiotics Place in Life cycle: Aging Hipster Favorite Films: The Obscure Object of Desire, The Leopard, The Night Porter, Shaun of the Dead, , Pulp Fiction, Fanny and Alexander, Ran, Brazil, The Wicker Man, The Royal Tenenbaums, Pan's Labyrinth, Beowulf and Grendel, The Hebrew Hammer Favorite Music: Calla, Califone, Folk Impolsion, Crooked Finger, The Swans, Angels of Light, Red Red Meat, The Decembrists, Radiohead, Blur, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, John Zorn, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, Neko Case, The Handsome Family, Smog, Mastodon, Isis, John Vanderslice, The Toids, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Mike Patton, Naked City, The Twilight Sad, Nick Cave, The National, Masada, Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses, Rogue Wave, Les Savy Fav, R.E.M, Akron/Family Favorite Television:: Aeon Flux, Metalocalypse, Good Eats, The Tick, Kids in the Hall, MST3K, Dr. Who, Everybody Hates Chris, Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Torchwood, Mythbusters Favorite Books: Foucault's Pendulum, House of Leaves, Lolita, The Bacchae, The Aenid, Infinte Jest, The Name of the Rose, Hotel Fiesta, Ariel, The Autobiography of Red, Zorba The Greek, The Tain, Big Bang by Simon Singh, Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco, The Gift of the Jews, Illuminations by Walter Benjamin, Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt, The Plague by Albert Camus, We Tell Stories to Keep Us Alive: Collected Joan Didion, anything by Michael Shermer Biopic: D., or Fabian Whig, was born in the "Me" decade and thus has tried to drop the "I" from his life. The Fabian Whig has wandered the Southeastern United States for too long and the humidity has altered him. The Fabian Whig got too much study done in literary theory during his time in college, which was long and twisted. The Fabian Whig has graduate degrees in strange "artsy" subjects that he actually rarely writes about. The Fabian Whig is high school teacher, an ex-teaching fellow/adjunct professor, ex-student, poet, autodidact, transhumanist, and artist, but he realizes so is everyone else. In his alter-ego, he is a lexicographer of a vast subconscious world and a semiotian of the unknown and unused symbols of the world. The Fabian Whig is the cynical aging hipster in the Youth and Beauty Brigade. The Fabian Whig has flirted with many religions, many political ideologies, but thinks flirting should be done with people at this point in his life. The Fabian Whig believes liberty is the most important political virtue. The Fabian Whig has studied critical theory, Shakespeare, and religious anthropology too long to be completely sane. The Fabian Whig thinks "married" should be its own gender category and he definitely belongs to it. The Fabian Whig tires of talking about himself in third person. The Fabian Whig likes tomatoes. Quotes (Insightful and Otherwise): "The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."--Paul Johnson "I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know."-Epicurus "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour.)"- Vladimir Nabokov "Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."-Vladimir Nabokov "I confess, I do not believe in time."-Vladimir Nabokov "Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity."-Vladimir Nabokov "Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."-Vladimir Nabokov "The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."-Vladimir Nabokov "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen." - Wittgenstein "Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden." -Kant "The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie."-Joseph A. Schumpeter "Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it." -William Bulter Yeats "War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. " -H. L. Mencken "To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!" -H. L. Mencken "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."- H. L. Mencken "The cynics are right nine times out of ten." - H. L. Mencken "It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously." -H. L. Mencken "I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing." -H. L. Mencken "Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there." -P J O'Rourke “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”-Hannah Arendt “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."-Hannah Arendt “Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”-Hannah Arendt “The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.”-Martin Buber "Writers are always selling somebody out."-Joan Didion "The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person." -P. J. O'Rourke "Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us." -Robinson Jeffers "Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins. " -Joan Didion "All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." -William Bulter Yeats "Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have on your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost truth."-Meister Eckhart "I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone."-H. L. Mencken "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."-Ambrose Bierce "Conservative - a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." -Ambrose Bierce "Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities."-Thomas Sowell "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -Thomas Sowell "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." - Thomas Sowell "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."-Noam Chomsky "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."-Noam Chomsky "You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it." -Noam Chomsky "Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."- Christopher Hitchens "All generalizations are false, including this one."-Mark Twain "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."- Mark Twain "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."-Mark Twain "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."-Mark Twain "A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs." -Epicurus "If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."-Epicurus "There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men." - Epicurus "As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. "-Diogenes "The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. "-Diogenes "The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."-Isaiah Berlin "Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." - Vladimir Nabokov "Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"--Epicurus "All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament."-Isaiah Berlin "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."-Frederic Bastiat | |
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