Eighteen years of blogs in philosophy. More than one million views!
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Random quote Writing is the concrete activity that consists in constructing, on its
own, blank space – the page – a text that has power over the exteriority from
which it first has been isolated.
Authoring random quotes was once a hobby. I kept a journal of those nuggets and added new ones as they materialized. By the time my interests expanded to blog philosophy, I had realized that no matter how clever or profound my creations were, they would never amount to much because it was improbable that I would be either rich. Or famous. So, I stopped, and, that journal was left behind in another place and time. Now and then, I still produce a quip or two. The last one reads as follows: try harder to think better. Do the best you can with what you have and know. It was originally longer but that excess was word salad---non-essential rhetoric---much like what is prepared by many modern public intellectuals. The blog venue and exchange of ideas is more fun, anyway.
Authoring random quotes was once a hobby. I kept a journal of those nuggets and added new ones as they materialized. By the time my interests expanded to blog philosophy, I had realized that no matter how clever or profound my creations were, they would never amount to much because it was improbable that I would be either rich. Or famous. So, I stopped, and, that journal was left behind in another place and time. Now and then, I still produce a quip or two. The last one reads as follows: try harder to think better. Do the best you can with what you have and know. It was originally longer but that excess was word salad---non-essential rhetoric---much like what is prepared by many modern public intellectuals. The blog venue and exchange of ideas is more fun, anyway.
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