But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.