news from the frontlines of the army of General Malaise...i'm suddenly reminded of this banner in the classroom of my math teacher in college that read BEWARE THE GHOST OF MEDIOCRITY. Perhaps that's what i'm fighting here....
so christmas went by rather painlessly though i expected to be flying, not hanging around in brooklyn...
january schedules came out and none of us are flying much at all, maxjet shut down and i'm kinda scared about the future of MY job hence jason suggested i become a post-woman as a backup plan. which strikes me as funny when you think of it like "post-modern." I am what comes after woman. whatever.
just have to get to new years. can't think about any resolutions except to be more aggressive with scheduling. hence having to forgo celebrations nyearseve and instead wake up at god-knows-what hour to be at kennedy at 5, fly to puerto vallarta, pick up some wealthy people and their kids who spent christmas in mexico and shuttle them back to sunny nyc.
in other news, check out my grandfathers manifesto in his blog entitled "determinism and your life." if you try to argue his philosophy he'll just tell you that you don't understand him. none of us do! he travels by greyhound and paints his driveway grey. he is wise.
be well in the new year. make your resolutions but don't be surprised if you forget about them in a week.
love
b
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Your grandfather's thoughts are interesting... kind of meta-determinism? Even if everything is predetermined by our context, it does not seem to reduce our sense of agency, our pleasure at success and unhappiness in mistakes. Even if everything is predetermined, it seems we must still stare into the void.
Good blog title.
happy new year
"our pleasure at success and unhappiness in mistakes"... we could get into an existential discussion here, that these are our futile responses to the abyss that doesn't gaze back at us.
at any rate, thanks for the comment!
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