Sunday, January 11, 2009

Capitalist Cogito: I buy therefore I am.

To assert oneself passionately on this earth, God chose power (which Lucifer tried to refute), Jesus chose betrayal (by convincing Judas), and capitalists accumulate. Like thinking of oneself as conscious we deny, like Descartes, full connectivity with the earth.

Do nothing, therefore you are nothing. Impermanence is the only certain principle of the world. Meditate on impermanence, and you become another earthly irritant: "a speck of sand in the eye of a giant."

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