My mother emailed me a summary of an archived article on the Boston Globe– the email subject was “lottare“. I bought the full copy for about $3. The article details the events that were going on when I was about a year and a half old. SNRZ was born a week and a bit after [...]

In defense of Diogenes, a passerby said: “he may be strange or mad but he is the only one among you that is content”. A local inhabitant replied: “we may be disconent and unhappy but at least we are sane and responsible– the price to me seems fair.”
Metacrap by Cory Doctorow
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The cultural norms reflected in body piercing are various. They may include religion, spirituality, fashion, eroticism, conformism, or subcultural identification.
(Body Piercing, Wikipedia)

All idiotic reasons or motivations. Any intentional self-mutilation is a sign of depravity and slave-mentality. The defeated [...]

Whether it really is Caesar or not, a beautiful work.

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Another aspect as to why I and the age cannot get along: caste. Aside from all the self-deceptive talk of equality amongst humankind, this age prizes highest of all the entertainer caste and the merchant caste. The warrior caste [...]

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My cousins show me their new shoes–two pairs of red Converse All-Stars– and ask me if I like how they look. I tell them that they should not ask me, because I do not prioritize how things look but [...]

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Watching my cousins grow up, enter adolescence– choosing to try to be in, to be popular, to impress others, all these struggles to fit in. In the end one of the critical marks of a person: whether one chooses [...]