Disordered World - @disorderedworld: It is taking Americans far too long to realize that Trump has a dangerous malignant narcissistic disorder that renders him psychologically incapable of reason, empathy & compromise. His disorder compels him to be vengeful, violent & criminal.
https://twitter.com/disorderedworld/status/1225540173951373312

a palindrome date is nigh:

20200202

This un-nerving article about the GOP and Ayn Rand provides some history regarding our current pathocracy: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/13/right-wing-american-love-affair-one-most-disturbing-serial-killers

some of the best internet ever:

One more attribute of our flight into the dead end of "us / them". https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/under-neoliberalism-you-can-be-your-own-tyrannical-boss

I would like to put together a collection of stories consisting of a single sentence, or if possible a single line. But so far I haven't
found any that surpass the one by the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso: "When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there." - Italo
Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium.

Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: “The 19th century invented the locomotive, and Hegel was convinced he had grasped the very spirit of universal history. But Flaubert discovered stupidity. I daresay that is the greatest discovery of a century so proud of its scientific thought.”
~ Milan Kundera
https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1126297138890039296

Hey, old establishment Dems and DNC, please wake up: "Because something is happening here /But you don’t know what it is / Do you, Mister Jones?" - Bob Dylan, 1965

I thought this was clever, but a philosopher friend pointed out that it is hoisted on its own petard. As in, "Done, I name 'all the things'."

"There are things that cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can contain them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to lose their integrity in the frailty of realization ...." Bruno Schulz - Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass.

"Remembered"/"forgotten": the terms are so binary! What name shall we give these little elephants of mental life, these traces of perception that are present but not present, noticed but not noticed? ... They are like letters received but not yet opened, their content available to the invisible weaver of dreams because never exposed to the domesticating force of habitual thought. Lewis Hyde, A Primer for Forgetting, p. 107.

toot process question: how do I comment on a previous toot of my own? I am trying to add some new learning, but think maybe toots should be left on their own?

Beloved public intellectual William James - @WilliamJamesN2O: Oh you like ontology? Name all the things

https://twitter.com/WilliamJamesN2O/status/1187040665252880384

from https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2019/10/cartoon-of-day-writers-emergency.html

It is the human that is the alien,

The human that has no cousin in the moon.
It is the human that demands his speech 

From beasts or from the incommunicable mass.
If there must be a god in the house, let him be one 

That will not hear us when we speak

- Wallace Stevens

Herbert Pföstl - @herbert_pfostl
https://twitter.com/herbert_pfostl/status/1185977735119699968