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“Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!” ~Nietzsche   “Ironize the Edifice” is one of those deliciously ambiguous phrases that sounds like it came out of a Nietzschean fever dream after too much black coffee and Schopenhauer.   Well, yes, but it is so vital, so paramount, that it needs to be pronounced. Perhaps even pontificated. Why? Because otherwise, we are left with rusty armor, dull swords, and bent spears. Otherwise, our wis

“Self-education is the only kind of education there is.” ~Isaac Asimov   Constantly remind yourself of how little you truly know and of how mysterious the world remains. Then flip the script and self-educate.   Cultivate curiosity like a cat with nine lives. Ask deep questions. Then go even deeper until the abyss is snarling in your face. Then double down. Don’t blink. For there is no end. There are only deeper questions to be asked, and even deeper curiosity with which to li

“Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” ~John Keats   The marriage of Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Negative Capability is Skeptical Capability.   Imagine an intellectual razor and a liminal question mark staff. Imagine wielding these tools between worlds, elevated above the battlefield of the human condition in glorious in-be-tweeness and healthy nonattachment.   You