Absence Of Quality Is The Essence Of

It's Paradoxical That Where People Are The Most Closely Crowded, In The Big Coastal Cities In The East And West, The Loneliness Is The Greatest... The Explanation, I Suppose, Is That The Physical Distance Between People Has Nothing To Do With Loneliness. It's Psychic Distance...

Data Without Generalization Is Just Gossip.

Any Philosophic Explanation Of Quality Is Going To Be Both False And True Precisely Because It Is A Philosophic Explanation. The Process Of Philosophic Explanation Is An Analytic Process, A Process Of Breaking Something Down Into Subjects And Predicates. What I Mean (and Everybody Else Means) By The Word 'quality' Cannot Be Broken Down Into Subjects And Predicates. This Is Not Because Quality Is So Mysterious But Because Quality Is So Simple, Immediate And Direct.

Why, For Example, Should A Group Of Simple, Stable Compounds Of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, And Nitrogen Struggle For Billions Of Years To Organize Themselves Into A Professor Of Chemistry? What's The Motive?

To Speak Of Certain Government And Establishment Institutions As 'the System' Is To Speak Correctly . . . They Are Sustained By Structural Relationships Even When They Have Lost All Other Meaning And Purpose. People Arrive At A Factory And Perform A Totally Meaningless Task From Eight To Five Without Question Because The Structure Demands It Be That Way. There's No Villian, No 'mean Guy' Who Wants Them To Live Meaningless Lives, It's Just That The Structure, The System Demands It And No One Is Willing To Take On The Formidable Task Of Changing The Structure Just Because It Is Meaningless.