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Sometimes you gotta cut your pants off with a pocket knife because it’s hot. #rock’n’roll #itjustgothotter

Sometimes you gotta cut your pants off with a pocket knife because it’s hot. #rock’n’roll #itjustgothotter

“The tired intellectual sums up the deformities and the vices of a world adrift. He does not act, he suffers; if he favors the notion of tolerance, he does not find in it the stimulant he needs. Tyranny furnishes that, as do the doctrines of which it is the outcome. If he is the first of its victims, he will not complain: only the strength that grinds him into the dust seduces him. To want to be free is to want to be oneself; but he is tired of being himself, of blazing a trail into uncertainty, of stumbling through truths. “Bind me with the chains of Illusion,” he sighs, even as he says farewell to the peregrinations of Knowledge. Thus he will fling himself, eyes closed, into any mythology which will assure him the protection and the peace of the yoke. Declining the honor of assuming his own anxieties, he will engage in enterprises from which he anticipates sensations he could not derive from himself, so that the excesses of his lassitude will confirm the tyrannies. Churches, ideologies, police—seek out their origin in the horror he feels for his own lucidity, rather than in the stupidity of the masses. This weakling transforms himself, in the name of a know-nothing utopia, into a gravedigger of the intellect; convinced of doing something useful, he prostitutes Pascal’s old “abêtissezvous,” the Solitary’s tragic device. A routed iconoclast, disillusioned with paradox and provocation, in search of impersonality and routine, half prostrated, ripe for the stereotype, the tired intellectual abdicates his singularity and rejoins the rabble. Nothing more to overturn, if not himself: the last idol to smash … His own debris lures him on. While he contemplates it, he shapes the idol of new gods or restores the old ones by baptizing them with new names. Unable to sustain the dignity of being fastidious, less and less inclined to winnow truths, he is content with those he is offered. By-product of his ego, he proceeds—a wrecker gone to seed—to crawl before the altars, or before what takes their place. In the temple or on the tribunal, his place is where there is singing, or shouting—no longer a chance to hear one’s own voice. A parody of belief? It matters little to him, since all he aspires to is to desist from himself. All his philosophy has concluded in a refrain, all his pride foundered on a Hosanna!” #emilecioran #philosophy #eyes #existentialism

“The tired intellectual sums up the deformities and the vices of a world adrift. He does not act, he suffers; if he favors the notion of tolerance, he does not find in it the stimulant he needs. Tyranny furnishes that, as do the doctrines of which it is the outcome. If he is the first of its victims, he will not complain: only the strength that grinds him into the dust seduces him. To want to be free is to want to be oneself; but he is tired of being himself, of blazing a trail into uncertainty, of stumbling through truths. “Bind me with the chains of Illusion,” he sighs, even as he says farewell to the peregrinations of Knowledge. Thus he will fling himself, eyes closed, into any mythology which will assure him the protection and the peace of the yoke. Declining the honor of assuming his own anxieties, he will engage in enterprises from which he anticipates sensations he could not derive from himself, so that the excesses of his lassitude will confirm the tyrannies. Churches, ideologies, police—seek out their origin in the horror he feels for his own lucidity, rather than in the stupidity of the masses. This weakling transforms himself, in the name of a know-nothing utopia, into a gravedigger of the intellect; convinced of doing something useful, he prostitutes Pascal’s old “abêtissezvous,” the Solitary’s tragic device.
A routed iconoclast, disillusioned with paradox and provocation, in search of impersonality and routine, half prostrated, ripe for the stereotype, the tired intellectual abdicates his singularity and rejoins the rabble. Nothing more to overturn, if not himself: the last idol to smash … His own debris lures him on. While he contemplates it, he shapes the idol of new gods or restores the old ones by baptizing them with new names. Unable to sustain the dignity of being fastidious, less and less inclined to winnow truths, he is content with those he is offered. By-product of his ego, he proceeds—a wrecker gone to seed—to crawl before the altars, or before what takes their place. In the temple or on the tribunal, his place is where there is singing, or shouting—no longer a chance to hear one’s own voice. A parody of belief? It matters little to him, since all he aspires to is to desist from himself. All his philosophy has concluded in a refrain, all his pride foundered on a Hosanna!” #emilecioran #philosophy #eyes #existentialism

Got to work an hour early. Live Mas. #tacobell #iwantlemonada

Got to work an hour early. Live Mas. #tacobell #iwantlemonada

If it is true that the absurd has been fulfilled (or, rather, revealed), then it follows that no experience has any value in itself, and that all our actions are equally instructive. The will is nothing. Acceptance is everything. On one condition: that, faced with the humblest or the most heart-rending experience, man should always be ‘present’; and that he should endure this experience without flinching, with complete lucidity.

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#regram of a #regram. This new song is faster than I can manage.

#regram of a #regram. This new song is faster than I can manage.

#dreads are getting long. #dreadlocks #ginger #beard #septum #piercings #tattoos

#dreads are getting long. #dreadlocks #ginger #beard #septum #piercings #tattoos

House cleaning and cigarettes. Preparing for Hayden’s fiancé to move in. It’s been quite the day.

House cleaning and cigarettes. Preparing for Hayden’s fiancé to move in. It’s been quite the day.

rhamphotheca: Quantum Meets Macro: Strange Particle Behavior Found by Clara Moskowitz Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles obey a set of rules called quantum mechanics that are quite different from the rules of ordinary objects. “The main difference between quantum mechanical behavior and classical behavior is that quantum systems can exist in several states, several realities at the same time,” explained Roee Ozeri, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. “They can be in several positions at the same time, or can point in several directions at the same time.” For everyday objects in the macroscopic world, though, this ability to be in two places at once, called superposition, is lost, and classical physics takes over. When a quantum systemtransitions into the classical world, it’s called decoherence.  “Decoherence is the process by which this phenomenon, being in multiple states at the same time, washes away and the system converges into a single physical reality,” Ozeri said… (read more: Live Science)       (image: Robert Fickler, Univ. of Vienna)

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Quantum Meets Macro: Strange Particle Behavior Found

by Clara Moskowitz

Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom.

Atoms and particles obey a set of rules called quantum mechanics that are quite different from the rules of ordinary objects.

“The main difference between quantum mechanical behavior and classical behavior is that quantum systems can exist in several states, several realities at the same time,” explained Roee Ozeri, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. “They can be in several positions at the same time, or can point in several directions at the same time.”

For everyday objects in the macroscopic world, though, this ability to be in two places at once, called superposition, is lost, and classical physics takes over. When a quantum systemtransitions into the classical world, it’s called decoherence. 

“Decoherence is the process by which this phenomenon, being in multiple states at the same time, washes away and the system converges into a single physical reality,” Ozeri said…

(read more: Live Science)       (image: Robert Fickler, Univ. of Vienna)

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