Philosophy

One of the truly great philosophers of the 20th century is a fellow with the mysterious moniker of “Bancini”. He didn’t say much, but when he did, people listened and stood in awe of his insightful commentary on the human condition. Bancini spent the majority of his adult life as a voluntary resident in the […]

I have a dream, in which I am writing a novel. In that dream, the words tumble from my fingers in coherent sentences, completely immersing my audience in a world that challenges the way that they have thought about their very existence. In reality, the words flow off of my fingers in drubs and drabs

The thought has recently occurred to me that the value of money is completely in our minds. Money has value because we all really really really WANT it to have value. It is an article of faith that has been imprinted on all of humanity that a US dollar is actually worth something. In this

Thinking today about the absurdity of life. What makes a person want to live after all? Is it a hope for the future, that you have something that you must accomplish? And if you accomplish it, what then? A scientist hopes to discover something novel, an engineer hopes to invent something, a doctor hopes to

Don’t know about you, but I sure spend a lot of time contemplating the past. Not in the sense of what might have been or mistakes that I might have made, but more like reliving things that I had enjoyed. It is a wistful nostalgia that ignores the bad and focuses on the good. You

Are we all getting more stupider or is that just the impression I get from watching too much television. I look out my car window to see people driving around in their cars dumbly distracted by their iPhones. And the dumbing down of our language and vocabulary? Great God man, where have all of the

As I get older, my hair has started to do funny things. Not sure what caused this disturbance in coiffurical force, but it smacks me right in the puss each morning when I look in the mirror. Perhaps it is a genetical malformation in my hair follicle ecosystem. Maybe it is because I do too

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible or a physical object. I suspect that the process and outcome is different for every individual. That conclusion seems obvious to me, since everyone produces something unique when they create, kinda like snowflakes or signatures or fingerprints

I have always been of the mind that no matter how difficult the time is that you are going through, at some point down the road you will look back and realize that it all happened for a reason. My mind drifts back to childhood, as it often does with old farts like yours’ truly.