What culture can a bunch of brown people left to their own devices produce?

To know that, one has to have some humility in admitting cultural illiteracy and suspending ideas of supposed superiority of textual literacy, Western knowledge systems and the artifacts that it produces.

Urbanites of the subcontinent have created a wondrous system by which one can eat rice without knowing the rice variety or where it is grown; or get a house built without knowing where the masons live.

These are not fossil-fuel powered “creative” fantasies—I have always failed to understand what is “creative” about pursuits that require…

In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed in whisper:

First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years, with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow by night. I can bear my fate no longer, and now I rebel.

Second Self: Yours is a better lot than mine, brother, for it is given to me to be this madman's joyous self. I laugh his laughter and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance his…

Some men like Jack
And some like Jill;
I'm glad I like
Them both; but still

I wonder if
This freewheeling
Really is an
Enlightened thing-

Or is its greater
Scope a sign
Of deviance from
Some party line?

In the strict ranks
Of Gay and Straight;
What is my status?
Stray or Great?

As love without esteem is whimsical and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Jonathan Swift

Happiness is like those stars; they don't cover all the darkness, there are gaps in between.

Impermanence necessitates flux

As I drift through the implosions & explosions that make up life, I wonder if I can ever free myself from the vicious clutches of capitalism.

Eradicate all rational thought, reason confines one's experience.