That's A Nice Solution You've Got There. It Would Be A Shame If It Wasn't The Root Cause Of The Problem.

(…) It will easily be seen in what consists the difference between a man who is led by emotion or opinion alone and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he wills it or not, does those things of which he is entirely ignorant, but the latter does the will of no one but himself, and does those things only which he knows are of greatest importance in life, and which he therefore desires above all things. I call the former, therefore, a slave, and the latter free.

Spinoza, Ethics (via fatenumber1)

TIL that approximately 41% of first marriages end in divorce, 60% of second marriages end in divorce, and 73% of third marriages end in divorce.

Desert Pixie (Melanis leucophlegma), family Riodinidae, Peru

photograph by Cler Drive

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn

instead of writing about the stuff that makes you angry, why not write about the stuff that makes you full of the childlike wonder you get when you've like, discovered a new layer of reality after midnight

Purple-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron microrhynchum), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Colombia

photograph by Cristian Valencia

Quick! Download those animes from the Internet Archive before a copyright claim takes them down.

Like Freud, Lacan regards hysteria as one of the two main forms of neurosis, the other being obsessional neurosis. Whereas obsessional neurosis concerns the question of the subject's existence, hysteria concerns the question of the subject's sexual position. This question may be phrased "Am I a man or a woman?" or, more precisely, "What is a woman?" Lacan thus reaffirms the ancient view that there is an intimate connection between hysteria and femininity. Indeed, most hysterics are women, just as most obsessional neurotics are men. The structure of desire, as desire of the Other, is shown more clearly in hysteria than in any other clinical structure; the hysteric is precisely someone who appropriates another's desire by identifying with them.

"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth. What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world."

It has just occurred to me that data hoarding is the 21st century version of bibliomania.