Jon Rosen

hopeless optimist

[Jon Rosen @rosenbaier]

The moment is unseizable.

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Maybe man’s original sin was his standing upright.

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Individual existence is a wrinkle that life irons out.

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The riptide of middle-age. Half of you still feels the urge to life and the imperative to overcome obstacles to living. The other half knows your time is dwindling and recognizes an equally powerful imperative to embrace the breakdown of your body and the finality of death.

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All speech is a form of song.

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You can’t fast-forward music.

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At the airport, I have often expressed that I prefer a window seat "so that if the plane crashes I can see the ground coming up". Social media offers a similar perspective.

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An unexpected benefit of the prolific adaptation of AirPods and other such devices may be that we become
better lipreaders.

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@SalomeSibonex As you may know, I ran a discussion group (700+members) entirely dedicated to “civil discourse” for nearly 9 years. But recently, painfully, had to admit defeat and give it up. Humans are, sadly, not even remotely built for what Julia Galef calls “Scout Mindset”.

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My middle-age body feels like a bowl of Rice Crispies: everything snaps, crackles and pops.

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Regrettably, I have to return my copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin), because it is missing pages and because the pages it does have are out of order.

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You can put things into words but you cannot put words into things.

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“Sentient Sludge” should be the title of my autobiography.

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Sometimes it is necessary to vacate not only the external world, but the internal world of thought and feeling, to drop out and decompose into a sort of dark, slow-flowing, molasses-like, goo. Deep peace therein resides.

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The sun rose like a parent who has not yet disappointed.

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@laracentric https://t.co/Q3ED4o09hk

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I travel by listening to people.

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Comedy runs after tragedy like a child runs after their depressed parent.

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We didn't realize it at the time, but Google's harmless little "search bar" was in fact the blinking open of the eye of the life form that would eventually replace us.

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I wonder if anyone has ever dreamt of sleeping.