Steve Dekorte http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi Steve Dekorte en-us Copyright Steve Dekorte, 2003 blog@dekorte.com blog@dekorte.com The Interminable Equation But there are still those dreams which are waiting for others to come along whose terms and conditions will cancel them out. These are the leftover dreams, our dark days, which have yet to fall victim to mathematics, and they are the only ones that count for anything. And it is the same with our waking days. Only a few of those escape nullification by contradiction, that process of cancellation which is going on all the time.

In any case, neither dreams nor days ever survive long before their counterparts annihilate them. It is quite possible that, in our last moments, there will be nothing left which we might look back on as a lifetime.

But will this nothingness itself endure, or will it too be canceled out by some inviolable and unsuspected form of being, terminating at last in a kind of double oblivion?

- Thomas Ligotti ]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 02:36:38 PDT Quote of the Day ‎"If we are searching for an aggressive nuclear regime, determined to wage war despite standards of constitutional restraint, democratic principles, and international law, we have two possible candidates that fit the bill. Iran is not one of them."

Link ]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 12:35:08 PDT Individualism This is the fundamental fact on which the whole philosophy of individualism is based. It does not assume, as is often asserted, that man is egoistic or selfish or ought to be.

It merely starts from the indisputable fact that the limits of our powers of imagination make it impossible to include in our scale of values more than a sector of the needs of the whole society, and that, since, strictly speaking, scales of value can exist only in individual minds, nothing but partial scales of values exist - scales which are inevitably different and often inconsistent with each other. It is this recognition of the individual as the ultimate judge of his ends, the belief that as far as possible his own views ought to govern his actions, that forms the essence of the individualist position.

- Friedrich Hayek, The Road To Serfdom]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 20:44:16 PDT Jefferson on Debt We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt... If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...

And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

- Thomas Jefferson]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 11:52:10 PDT Quote of the Day The problem is if Obama wins he'll bail out banksters & drop bombs but if Romney wins he'll bail out banksters & drop bombs.

- Garikai Chengu]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 11:24:09 PDT Glycine Dietary glycine supplementation mimics lifespan extension by dietary methionine restriction in Fisher 344 rats.

Link ]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:05:38 PDT Alien (The Movie) Documentary

Video ]]> Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:58:26 PDT Trailer: Samsara

Video ]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:07:49 PDT Chain of Obedience The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were were run by those who followed the rules.

Video 2min ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:52:01 PDT Alan Watts on Anarchy

Audio 27min ]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:20:49 PDT