You content yourself with the slumber of conventional knowledge ...

You cannot solve the enigma. You cannot measure up to the universe if you content yourself with the slumber of conventional knowledge.

...

that violent movement, sudden and shocking, which jostles the mind, taking away its tranquility;





-georges bataille

To Take A Renewed Interest In The United States Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Griswold v Connecticut - birth control

Lawrence v Texas sodomy

Lochner V New York - candidate for worst decision ever


Miranda v Arizona - limits on police interrogations

Marbury v Madison - Past dick moves by John Adams cannot simply be ignored even if Thomas Jefferson becomes president and goes predictably mad with power so long as John Adams was being a dick in an official federal capacity. Oh and John Marshall found this new part of the Constitution that he -John Marshall -had just made up. It let the Supreme Court (coincidentally now led by John Marshall) settle this type of dispute. And Marshall could decide in favor of the president who appointed him and that was fine.

Bush V Gore - candidate for worst decision ever

thorn in the side of a man

The never forget bullshit never sat right with me. And now, America is still in denial. It takes a lot of work and introspection (granted, not America’s strong suit) but it is possible to recover. But it helps if you want to. If you recognize what behaviors are irrational or damaging. Look at which coping tools may have temporarily served some purpose but really cause more damage in other areas. Torturing suspected terrorists is a maladaptive coping mechanism that hurts America’s recovery.

You have to go to the root memories and normalize them. Work them into the real narrative flow of your life. So normalizing the events means taking away the sacred power of their pain. That pain is not holy pain. It is not untouchable pain. It is not good pain. At least it wasn’t for me and certainly isn’t for America. Yeah sure, you can have a reasonable reaction to unreasonable events. But you then have to understand that those reactions don’t work in most other situations.

Dismantle every change. Move on.

Stop waiting for something horrible to happen.