The Traveler Mohssin Amghar

Vivian Maier, self-portrait, 1954

want some good news? the number of physical bookstores is going up & the sales of physical books is also going up people have been buying & reading physical books in bookstores & libraries for 2000 years and they're going to keep doing it for a long time cnn.com/2024/11/16/bus…

"Art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently." - Virginia Woolf

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless 'information' that fails to

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd." ~ Flannery O'Connor

I have a complicated relationship with everything

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, 1968.

"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes." ~ Gore Vidal

I don’t think anything good will ever happen again until people feel bad about being stupid again

We will probably only realize in retrospect how much of the world we live in was being shaped by the niche preferences and compromised human understanding of essentially weird and unpleasant people.

The capacity for self-reflective critical thinking is what stands between humanity and the descent into a new form of totalitarianism AI is technological ideology. It strips you of the right to think for yourself while turning you back against yourself in isolation. It's inhuman

We do not support gen AI in the book, art and music communities. Ever. It has no place amongst human expression. It’s soulless, it’s theft and it’s damaging the planet. If you use it knowing that, you have betrayed your fellow humans, and I want nothing to do with you.

New sonnet in LIGHT poetry magazine about these overly bright, noisy, glassy, computer-infested new libraries….