Some trees come with titles that seem numerologically significant. Yet they remain agnostic.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Day: October 29, 2019
Caveat: the base alloy of hypocrisy
In this historical moment when a motley riot of neo-know-nothingists are mucking about with the levers of government, I find hope for humanist values in the apropos observations of a certain famous politician:
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equals, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.” When it comes to that I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
– Abraham Lincoln
Caveat: Poem #1185 “The obstinacy of barnacles”
Clinging for dear life, narcissistic barnacles refuse nirvana.
– a pseudo haiku