A Sense of Ethics

Tim CE
Tim CE
Nov 7 · 2 min read
A tick, via Deleuze & Guattari, via von Uexküll

During college, while visiting a second-hand bookshop on the north side of Chicago, my future-wife picked up a tattered red cloth-covered book that had caught her eye — the Journal Intime of little-known nineteenth-century Swiss writer Henri-Frédéric Amiel. In it we would later find much wisdom, but above all, the following:

“We receive everything, both life and happiness; but the manner in which we receive, this is what is still…

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Tim CE

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Tim CE

Clinical, not cynical.

Idle Thoughts

The idleness of thought entails the capacity to intervene — carefully, incisively, even forcefully — without being beholden to the interests of the institutions that impose themselves on us.

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