still from Right Here All Over by Alex Mallis
But fortunately, power has a shelf life. […] A world run by a handful of greedy bankers and C.E.O.’s whom nobody elected can’t possibly last.
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market-capitalism, American style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by the human intelligence, undone by human nature.
The time has come, the Walrus said. Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there’s a small god up in heaven readying herself for us. Another world is not only possible, she’s on her way. Maybe many of us won’t be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.
Hermione as Ophelia
I remember when I ripped that edition of Vanity Fair apart to scan this picture. God, I’m old.
Goya’s The Dog
A law of nature has been broken
In a laboratory on Long Island
In a quark-gluon plasma soup
For a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second.
When gold nuclei travelling at 99.999% of the speed of light smashed together,
Up quarks moved with magnetic field lines; down quarks traveled against.
A break in parity, symmetry.
Maybe this can tell us why we’re matter more than antimatter.
Why we matter.
…
Because it isn’t fair,
This pigment, or this yellow.
Because, as we were saying:
We want to know who and what
And where and when and how.
All the way to the beginning.
Why at the heart of every large galaxy
There’s a massive black hole.
