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by Adam Kotsko
My first set of aphorisms met with such resounding agreement and
approval from all those who commented that I feared something had gone
dreadfully wrong. Hopefully these aphorisms will alienate a few more
of my readers.
- Computers represent the last phase of technology, the phase when
it slips into decadence. The future is the story of people becoming
increasingly tired of computers and finally calling into question the
entire idea of open-ended technological progress.
- The world has been done a terrible disservice by those mothers who
failed to force their children to do chores.
- God's existence is as self-evident as the existence of a real
world outside the mind; only a very artificial mindset could allow us
to think otherwise.
- All freshmen in college are entitled to a one-year period of
complete idiocy, after which they have no excuse.
- Few situations illustrate the human condition better or more
completely than reading on the toilet.
- It is inappropriate to say that God wills you to do anything he
does not also will everyone else to do.
- Writing a sentence in the passive voice is not a sin.
- A good man should not take the risk of entering politics.
- Those who reduce everything to the will of God are every bit as
bad as those who reduce everything to the interaction of particles and
forces.
- Beowulf isn't really that impressive.
- Israel is the last example of outright colonialism.
- White people don't commit acts of "terrorism."
- Patriotism is a sign of intellectual weakness.
- Draft-dodging is morally imperative.
- Evangelicalism will eventually collapse back into the
Fundamentalism from which it arose.
- No one understands what's really going on here.
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