In high school, my friends & I had a very dumb joke (that has obviously not aged well) that if you smoked too much weed, you would turn gay. It is hilarious, though, that the federal government has taken up our 14-year-old logic but replaced weed and gay with Tylenol and autism.

“If each generation die and leave ghosts, [Grant Allen] argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them.” -H.G. Wells

A democracy that works for us has nothing to do with electing but everything to do with the ability to repeal those elected.

You either enter Twitter as a serious poster or a sarcastic one. You cannot change your mind once you have made a decision.

Politics, like desire, is not what ‘should be’ but is what ‘could be.’

What enjoyment will conservatives be left with if they succeed in destroying all their enemies?

1. Desire articulated. 2. Desire’s truth.

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?” -Virginia Woolf

Never let go of what you don’t know.

“[It is the] agents of Kapital, not their opponents, who ‘demand the impossible‘ now. Their fantasy of a sustainable Kapitalism, carrying on, forever, without burning out the planet, is perfectly delirial.” -Mark Fisher

I don’t care about the concept of performative reading at all like I’m just happy you’re reading

Absence is generative.

I think the most interesting use of psychoanalysis is the singular point where everyday experiences meet something transcending the individual. Also, the only collective unconscious is the shared experience of not knowing what the other experiences.

Ended my analysis today.

There are plenty of psychoanalysis for dummies type books. It’s been done many times and it will continue being done. It’s clearly not satisfying…

“Truth is a fall of knowledge.” Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis David Bowie and Tilda Swinton, photographed by Floria Sigismondi in 2013

Hysterics, as far as the eye can see.

-Lacan