the universe will not be controlled by the likes of us

the title is a brilliant phrase uttered on the intertubes by AdamSelene @ theoildrum.com. this space accumulates other such short, poetic, and found-elsewhere insights into the limits of human cognition. it is a project dedicated to Wes Jackson’s vision of an “ignorance-based worldview.” a brilliant phrase uttered by his friend Wendell Barry in a letter.

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a side of essays + very short stories

April 25, 2009 at 3:00 pm · Filed under meta, the cloud and tagged: , , , , ,

btw, on the far right of this blog, i’m compiling a list of essays i think are very good, possibly earth-shattering.  as you can see, the links also include a few words of commentary next to them. i’m treating these like mini blog posts (a fun challenge; Hemingway said his best work was this six-word story: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”; to read more very short stories, go here).

today, for example, i added Douglas Rushkoff’s essay Let it Die, which is about the modern industrial corporate economy, and has this as its first sentence:

With any luck, the economy will never recover.

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