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Pragmatism is the correct philosophy (so far, inasmuch as I can observe its outcomes).

Have you any alternative theory which will meet the facts?

I had a week of completely dead productivity and writer's block. So then I decided to say "fuck it" and go back in on my caffeine-based strategy and IT IS WORKING.

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Well, but they'll see how small you are afterwards, won't they?

Aesthetic experience is the sign-vehicle waving around in the breeze, all flaunty and sanguine in its rhematic firstness.

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>develop an arcane system of code
>use it to create art
>submit the art to galleries
>explain nothing

literally GOATed artistic strategy

Kicking the can down the road is like the definition of an Infinite Game.

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I'm sick of hearing slander against kicking the can down the road. Sometimes that is the very best solution. The road is long and the can can be kicked an indefinite number of times.

Brushing your teeth is kicking the can down the road.
Going to bed on time is kicking the can down the road.
Paying your bills is kicking the can down the road.

Nowhere is it written that there is always going to be an elegant, perfect solution, a sliceable gordian knot that holds together all of our ills.

The true power of the Internet is to furnish the subconscious with new and original horrors to dread. To subdue the id with a menagerie of hypersalient grotesques. The untutored drives within a person must be trained harshly to retract from an etic reality that is hellish and monstrous.

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