When someone like William F. Buckley dies, one is reminded of the breadth of knowledge and charisma floating about between the synapses gifted from people of brilliance.
While I was washing dishes yesterday morning I made a little game of coming up with truisms. It is a matter of inevitability before someone points out they have "read that somewhere before," but until those statements of ego correction start pouring in, here are my March Saturday Dish Washing Platitudes:
Seriousness in the face of the nonserious is a formidable defect.
Fundamentalism is an intellectual anachronism, certainly not a cultural one.
There is no point to embracing change for change's sake. Change will happen either way so you are getting nothing done and proving no point. However, there is cogent argument for the comfort that comes with actively accepting change. This is the razor's edge.
A delicate cocktail of sentimentality, romanticism and perceptive expectations is the recipe for happiness.
6 comments:
I think this says something about that restaurant-sized kitchen sink you guys use.
ahh but is nonserious in the face of seriousness a formidable defect?
nice gams! unless they belong to your wife, then nice... floor.
it takes a village
I don't understand the difference between intellectual anachronism or a cultural anachronism. In fact I don't think it works as a truism. I could see it embossed in a marbel wall somewhere but I don't understand it. please explain.
Its like the difference between Anderson Silva and Kimbo Slice.
Wex- I don't think I can make that inverse a truism. Too many qualifications.
Not my wife's gams.
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