Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Rabblemaking and Troublerousing Plagiarism is a crime only where writing is a trade; expression need never be bound by the law of copyright while it follows thought, for thought, as some great thinker has observed, is free. The words were once Shakespeare 's; if only you can feel them as he did, they are yours now no less than his. The best quotations, the best translations, the best thefts, are all equally new and original works. Walter Raleigh

You Think These Are Random? Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away. Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading  

Interoperable Ideas And I admire the way they grow right through fences, nothing stops them, it’s called inosculation: to unite by openings, to connect or join so as to become or make continuous, from osculare, to provide with a mouth, from osculum, little mouth. Sometimes when I’m alone I go outside with my big little mouth … Epistemology Catherine Barnett poem-a-day ...and speak to the trees as if I were a birch among birches.  

Downslope Tropes to You-Tope The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. Martin Heidegger

Umm! I'm Telling! And no one can be caught up in wonder without traveling to the outermost limits of the possible. But no one will ever become the friend of the possible without remaining open to dialogue with the powers that operate in the whole of human existence. But that is the comportment of the philosopher: to listen attentively to what is already sung forth, which can still be perceived in each essential happening of world. And in such comportment the philosopher enters the core of what is truly at stake in the task he has been given to do. Martin Heidegger  

Polyphonic Bullshitification No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams Thanks to Maria Popova and Amanda Palmer for the performance of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Protest

Hey, What's Going On! When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes accessible as fast as you like; when you can simultaneously "experience" an assassination attempt against a king in France and a symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed, instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has vanished from all Being of all peoples; when a boxer counts as the great man of a people; when the tallies of millions at mass meetings are a triumph; then, yes then, there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the question: what for? — where to? — and what then? Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics