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Would it be riding the wave, or stepping over a puddle?
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
People will believe what they want most to believe, what they yearn to be true. Nothing is more readily accepted than the seeming confirmation of an already established prejudice.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
I’ve learned pogroms do not require much in the way of organization. Merely ample hate.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
William Shakespeare has one of his characters propose, Let’s kill all the lawyers. He forgot to include the bureaucrats.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
And so he nattered on, like an old woman fretting over the fraying of her prayer rug, not realizing the ceaseless nervous fidgeting of her fingers was the cause of its fraying.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
Please understand, Schisms occur within subcommunities frequently and with relative ease. Mergings of subcommunities, on the other hand, are more like comet sightings… very rare indeed.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
Thanks to my work, I know the type all too well. A malcontent, a refusenik. A grievance monger, quick as a scampering lemur to take offense. Such people make little sense to me.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
Psychologists claim the mind is incapable of imagining itself not existing, of mentally inhabiting its own extinction. Yet I can sense obliteration’s lackeys nibbling away at my edges, hungry mice eating the brown crusts of the bread of my being.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)
Bureaucracies are dullards’ tools of revenge on men of action. Sputtering machines filled with blinkered human cogs, they respond glacially to signals issued by their political masters, rather like ponderous dinosaurs whose tiny brains required an auxiliary neural center within the hip region to re-transmit commands all the way to their tail.
Hazardous Imaginings (2020)