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When the insurrectionist storm the Capitol don't "ask what country is this?", because what makes this country special (or not) is the actions of its people, and not the magical thinking that exceptionalism (and your question) implies. ...

Elephants of all sizes, along with the giraffes, feed on the trees of the savanna. ...

La separación es una ilusión. ...

Every day write one sentence, even if it's imperfect. ...

Some people want hell. They attack whoever suggests that there is no hell. They don't want hell for themselves, but for the infidels. Hell is eternal, the supreme punishment. That's what so-called Christians want for others. Christ asked us to love our enemies, so-called Christians want every person who is not a Christian to suffer eternally. What do we want for people who oppose social distancing? Darwinism? We need to fight our basest insticts not to be like the Christians who wish hell to t...

It's emerging that some people feel restless about the government-imposed quarantine. They want to get on with their lives. We all do. This coincides with governments in at least half of the states in the U.S. loosening restrictions. I think that's good. I think people have internalized the message and more than 66,000 dead people in the country speak for the gravity of the situation. We'll get to 100,000 before summer and I don't see most people happily going into the streets any time soon, gov...

Modern society has takenthe power to improve your personal, emotional and spiritual well-being from your hands. Science and objective knowledge, on one hand, and the absolute power of the church on the other. As individuals, it is our duty to take it back. We have the responsibility to heal ourselves and take the control of our lives back. The power to do it is in each and every one of us. There isn't a person in the univeres who is not capable of doing something right now to improve their i...

La motivación se ha vuelto para mí la piedra de toque que convierte el plomo en oro. Una quimera. Desde que tuve mi primer trabajo, la motivación me ha faltado. Me ha faltado interés en los frutos de mi trabajo. Me interesa no fallar, no meter la pata, no ser completamente irresponsable, pero más allá no me importa más. He leído en muchos lugares que no estoy solo. Que a la mayoría de la gente le disgusta su trabajo (más del 80%, según Gary V, el insoportable y self-centered gurú del entrepren...

Salir o no salir? Ese es el dilema Sabremos algún día quién tuvo razón? Quién hizo lo correcto, qué país tuvo la estrategia correcta? No lo creo Perú, según las noticias que leí, al principio de la epidemia mandó al ejercito a asegurarse que todo mundo respetara la queda. Suecia, optó por dejar que sus ciudadanos hicieran lo que les dictara la consciencia. En medio, España e Italia, que tuvieron varias semanas experimentando una versión del infierno. One size does not fit all. Por qué cundió ...

No sé porqué, pero de vez en cuando me desvelo Es como tomar alcohol, me adormece algún dolor Me embrutece en el momento y le quita el filo a mi consciencia Pero al día siguiente, el dolor, el mordisqueo reaparece Y encima me siento de la mierda porque el día anterior no dormí bien Joder Coño Joder Y así, prometo que no lo vuelvo a hacer Paso las próximas cuatro noches intentando irme a dormir temprano Y las próximas cuatro mañanas tratando de despertarme tarde Para dormir Para recuperar el su...

Brindo por los que no son perfectos por los que mientan madres por los que se despiertan tarde por los que no hicieron la tarea los que se mearon en los calzones los que le mentaron la madre a su jefe emborrachados los que no saben escribir los que escriben pura mierda los que se emputan los que no meditan los que tragan pura cagada de desayuno los que no desayunan los que viven quincena a quincena los que no ahorraron los que siguieron el manual de carreño los que se cagaron fuera del escusad...

Evidentemente, escribir no es difícil. Estoy sentado en mi casa escribiendo. Puedo escribir por una hora, sin cansarme. Es más fácil que levantar pesas. Porqué, entonces, he estado pensando que es difícil? Para empezar, he estado pensando que escribir "bien" es lo difícil. Qué es escribir bien? Aquí está el problema, no se puede definir qué es la "buena" escritura. Es subjetivo, es decir que aquí estamos a merced del público. Como no podemos satisfacer a todos en un mundo tan diverso como el nu...

Watching the situation in China and the unrest caused by the government's ineptitude, I was hoping that people in China would finally wake up to the oppression and fight for a better system that works for the people, but today I was thinking about our own government's response and the inequality here and that we need to finally wake up to the oppression of a system that only works for billionaires and fight for a better system that works for the rest of us. ...

Baby Boomers killed irony. Baby Boomers are the generation that was born after WWII and benefited the most from the economic boom that blessed the U.S. after the end of the war. Baby Boomers lived through the most prosperous time in the history of mankind. And who benefited the most? White males. And now, white, old males are back to tell you that all you need to prosper is to work harder. The. Fucking. Nerve. Who killed irony? Boomers did. ...

Tememos despertar a la pesadilla, al terrible así que nos mantenemos callados a lo mucho solo nos atravemos a repetir la palabra que no ha despertado al malvado y así nuestro lenguage es formado a la sombra del miedo cuando uno de nosotros se atreve a formular un nuevo vocablo uno que no despierta al diablo lo felicitamos, nos felicitamos somos buenos ...

The logic from some white people is this: Trump fears Bloomberg, therefore Bloomberg can defeat Trump. Which does not even make sense, but let's move on Defeating Trump is all that matters, therefore we all must support Bloomberg and not look at his flaws, which include racist views, which are not actually racist white people tell us. Well, thank you for whitesplaining it to us. In fact, Bloomberg's best service to this country will be to split the centrist Democratic vote and help us elect ...

Nos da miedo que creemos una inteligencia tan cabrona que nos vaya a dejar pendejos. Pero pues pendejos ya estamos, no? ...

Once in a while Death points her finger to someone close to you I don't mean someone you love I mean someone who reminds you that you'll never know when it's your turn until it's your turn Water your plants Straighten your tie And smile ...

To live long enough to get tired of your own damn excuses ...

Quiero al menos poder decir que lo intenté. ...

You think you're smart knowing that the statistics say that having a gun in one's house poses a higher risk for one's family than potential intruders. And you may be, but you're really stupid if you think you're going to convince anyone not to have a gun in their home with that tidbit of information. We all think statistics don't apply to us (and to tell you the truth they don't, but that may be stuff for another post). The smoker, the gambler, the guy who religiously buys a lotto ticket every w...

and so is resistance come on guys we can do this "with the flick of an eye you finally see the light" and once you see the light be all over it and don't let go depresh will come back, but the further you get while on the light, the easier it'll be to climb back i believe in you ...

YouTube wants to kill me, so does my neighbor, the garbage truck's driver, porn, the Microsoft corporation, I just got two blue screens of death in the last week, you motherfuckers The seasons, particularly winter and its bullshit: cold, snow, ice, chapped lips, the furnace My employer, the government, Too much and too little Up and down My bed is too cozy The whole internet is too interesting I have ideas to write but everything's been written Dead writers are out to kill me I want to write, b...

He wants to kill me Do I sound paranoid to you? He's not cleaning the snow from the sidewalk in front of his house! He's going to give me a heart attack He does it so I don't stop thinking about He does it so I don't write He is Resistance He is Neurosis He lives inside my head ...

Is the minimum wage good or bad? A few years ago Chipotle announced that it had partnered with the City of Denver to provide low-rent housing to its employees. Some people, who I suspect are not habituated to reflecting, cheered the move, even though 1) it was a clear admission that Chipotle does not pay a living wage to some of its employees, and 2) it had ensnared the city on a scheme to use tax-payer money to pony up for the difference.Evidently, the minimum wage is not sufficient. The threa...

Ando pinches perdido. Estoy escribiendo todos los días pero no estoy seguro de que esto vaya a algún lado. Supongo que yo lo voy a tener que dirigir hacia alguna dirección, pero no sé a dónde quiero ir. Mi meta en algún momento es escribir un artículo para una publicación. Pero ando muy pinche apático. Un día me siento chido, voy bien, llevo una dirección, estoy respetando mi arte, pero otros días me siento perdido. Estoy siguiendo el método de Julia Cameron, El Camino del Artista, y ella dice q...

I'm taking the #100days challenge, trying to write one blog post at least once a day fof 100 days. Part of the goal is to make you write even when you don't want to, even when you don't have any ideas, or when you just want to go to bed after avoiding the blank page all day long. So, here I am, with nothing to say except that I have nothing to say. Mission accomplished. :) ...

How I'm increasing my productivity. First of all, I'm recognizing that I have a problem. It looks obvious to me now, but for two years I thought I was being smart. The problem is this: I am mortgaging my future in order to pay for short term self-indulgence. My solution Track focused work Focused means no distractions Focused means meaningful: work directly related to my top priority projects Focused means it has a clear objective: a concrete result (blog post, song, etc.), or builds up my ...

Destruction is easy. Working with entropy is easy, it's the downward flow, you just let yourself go. Destroying yourself takes one second. A life of building something requires years of discipline, even just to keep yourself alive. Bemoaning that things don't go your way is old, it's easy, it's been done a million times. Self-actualization may seem an act of self-centeredness but it's the opposite. Is the recognition that we didn't come here to indulge in our basest desires, it's the recognition...

But sometimes we just can't stop it can we? ...