Comments on The Extraordinary Example

That is what's going on now with all these liberal Democrats we elected.

Some want the tunnel, and some want surface/transit. It's a bulldog ant self-battle.

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

-- A.S.

Also, to paraphraze, A.S. - a useful concept discovered in researching the role of Vladimir in GODOT:

"Life is a tragedy; day-to-day existence is a comedy."

I like closeups of bugs and crawlies when they've been smashed:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,19742,00.html

We are all ants. Not even monkey's with swollen frontal lobes, just ants.

And there's still-alive versions, complete with desire-to-survive in effect.

http://waterstonewildlife.org/galleries/insects/gallery.php?size=full&image=0

Schopenhauer = kant + seneca.

and

Hume : Backgammon :: Schopenhauer : Budhism