www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Pleasure of Pointlessness By Gary Z McGee “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” ~James Joyce What’s the point of it all? Why is there something...
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Count Coup on The Gods By Gary Z McGee “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ~Moliere Realize, here at the outset: the only reason the gods exist in the second place is because our...
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Become a Cosmic Hero “In this kind of ontology of immanence, what we are describing is not a creature who is transformed and who transforms the world in turn in some miraculous ways, but rather a creature who takes more...
Monkeyshines And the Tilting of the Wheel By Gary Z McGee www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com “I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the...
The Abyss We Refuse to See By Gary Z McGee www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com “Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means toward discovering them. Reason is our only way to grasp reality. We are free to avoid the effort of thinking, to...
