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- Progress, so-called, makes us suffer because it teaches us to be discontent with what we already have. The discourse of progress is really the discourse of the product: which wants us to believe that we won’t be happy until we have it, and leave our old way of life behind.
- Tragedy is pleasurable because it is true.
- Internet humor lacks a sense of tragedy, which is to say, it lacks of a sense of human nobility. Without that sense of wasted potential, without the sense that the human can be more, human beings can only be mean.
- Focus is feeling; if you can’t focus, you can’t feel.
- If you’re phone does all of your thinking work for you, what is left for you to do? Nothing good —
- The 1960’s represented the first and last great uprisings against industrial society. Since then, we’ve all accepted our fates as passive worker-consumers.
- Digital pleasures cannot replace physical pleasures: they can only make us forget them.
- A thought is a chemical reaction in the brain: we feel our thinking, and thank God we do: otherwise, we would just be algorithms. A soul is a thought that is felt.
- Similarly, meaningless is physical rootlessness. Meaningless is the feeling of isolation from one’s physical environment, or more specifically, the sacred earth.
