The thing is there has never not been a crisis.
I find this somewhat remarkable, yet not in need of any special justification.
The development of self-help literature shows how much supplementary fiction is required to sustain the fiction of the self.
In the face of the declining hegemony of their geopolitical location, they would rather indulge the fantasy that it is eternal evil than face the reality that it never was the “prime mover.”
If this system is a meritocracy, a surprising number of mediocrities are running the show.
A culture of nihilism is what results when a culture of bullshit becomes conscious of itself.
Liberation from both is an essential condition of the actualization of all other political values.
Calculation is no substitute for thinking, and thinking is no substitute for calculation.
You’d hope that someone that conceited would at least entertain more interesting conceits.
Antagonism is alright turned in the proper direction.
Art of Aphorism 
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