advocacy quips about

"All I know is I know nothing. And sometimes I forget even that much." - Digit



"If ignorance is bliss, give me agony." - Digit



"The ignorance that dies is not you." - Digit



"In a sea of misinformation, everybody's a shill" - Digit



""Random" is an expression of our inability to comprehend or convey the pattern." - Digit



"Educate yourself so you may educate others" - Unknown



"We are psychenauts and we are not afraid" - Unknown / Digit?



"Take care not to cut yourself on occam's razor" - Digit



"Nihilism's like salt. Everybody's philosophy needs a little . Emphasis on a little." - Digit



"What is wisdom without freedom? What is freedom without wisdom?" - Digit



"Paradoxes resolve at higher topologies.
At the highest topology, all paradoxes resolve." - Digit



"Time flies when you're not in pain or prison." - Unknown / cannabis activists.



"There's no democracy nor science, under censorship." - Digit



"We don't build paradise with bricks of atrocity." - Digit



"Like pens make poor binoculars, belief makes a poor means to determine reality." - Digit



"No rest on a bed of blood." - Digit



"Boost the health, not attack the illness." - Digit



"We can all be polymaths in the making, not slaves in training." - Digit



"There's no shame in the truth" - Minbari Master.



"And as amazing as cannabs can seem, remember it's no magic pixie dust that solves all things by itself. You still need to keep doing all the other things for health too. " - Digit



"The map is not the terrain" - iunno... archaic? voltaire? socrates? siddartha guatama? the mushroom? iunno..



"Are you agent terrorising me to hire goons from the legal bar society to protect me from your slander and misrepresentation of what I am saying?" - Digit



"Mend all things." - Digit



"I can see you've a good heart in that,
but, please don't muddy your ends with such means." - Digit



"No! Don't think for yourself. Do your own thinking, for each and all." - Digit (retort to "think for yourself")



"There's always a better way." - Digit (often contextually implied "...than violence.")



"Mendwards! :D" - Digit



"Solution space is upstream." - Digit



"Solution space is elsewhere." - Digit



"Charm is like lube for evil" - Roisin Conaty



"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting nor rejecting it." - Digit's preferred version of this sentiment often (mis(?))attributed to aristotle, voltaire, and others.



"''For profit healthcare/medicine'' is oxymoronic, as highlighted by ''a patient cured is a customer lost.''" - Digit's preferred version of expressing this old sentiment.



"Everybody's saying the same thing, but differently." - Digit



"The worst crime: Suppressing technology that can emancipate us all." - Digit
(And before you argue against that, consider how whatever candidate worse crime you're thinking of is caused or enabled or worsened by this crime.).



"We can still mend this." - Digit



"Food, Fuel, Fiber, Medicine" - Cannabis Activists.



"Cannabis saves my life and spares me immense suffering." - Digit



"Cannabis can save the world." - Digit (& everybody who've looked into it.)



"Cannabis, the original emancipation technology." - Digit



"We co-evolved." - Digit



"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - ... idk. Paraphrased David Hume perhaps.



"Cannabis is humankind's best friend. Sorry dogs. Cannabis never bit anyone's face off." - Digit.



"The correct perspective contains all other perspectives" - paraphrased Thomas Merton (maybe?)



"What wisdom is there without polyperspectivism?" - Digit



"Monoperspectivism. The naive realist's fortress and prison." - Digit



"They're just your beleifs. That doesn't make them real." - Bill Hicks



"Attercoparchy. Ruled by poisonous spider (/ulcer)." - Digit



"I advocate non-belief. Neither belief nor disbelief. Aspiring to exorcise all beliefs." - Digit



"Epistemology, cha cha cha." - Digit



"We're each just another blind man around the elephant." - Digit (alludes to the blind men and an elephant parable)



"Helped that one." - Digit (alludes to the starfishes on the beach story, evoking a lifted spirit to do what you can and not let the despair, of being unable to meet the perfectionism of mending all the things in one go, ...)



"Lower your expectations. Raise your aspirations." - Digit (? ~ surely others have said that too.)



"No expectations." - Digit (? ~ surely others have said that too.)



"Beware those who've bought your trust and try put you back in the orthodox box" - Digit



"A different perspective? What an opportunity to learn." - Digit



"Neo Liberal is neither new nor liberal. Neo-Liberal = Same Old Fascist." - Digit



"Anybody here work in advertising or marketing? ... Kill yourselves. It's just a little thought; I'm trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root. You do what you can. No but seriously, if you are, do. Aaaaah, no really. There's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay? Kill yourself. Seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good. Seriously. No this is not a joke. You're ''There's going to be a joke coming.'' There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked, and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself." - Bill Hicks (Digit watched the set this was in, over and over, back to back, for the 3 months it took to make his first TV commercial, animated by himself. And then never did advertising again. Bill Hicks saved Digit, by telling him to kill himself.)



"Beware. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. He destroyed not just competing companies, but entire industries, using Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. And now he[Bill Gates]'s embracing your land, your food, and your health..." - Digit



"Fauxlanthropist." - Digit



"Face the horror." - Digit



"Face the horror. We can not mend what we do not face" - Digit



"Face the horror. We can mend what we face" - Digit



"Head on into the wave." - Digit (?) / Sailors (?) / Psychenauts (?)



"This is no time for caution." - CASE, Interstellar



"It's not possible." - CASE
"No. It's necessary." - Cooper



"No. Normal people save everybody.." - Paige to Walter Obrian, in TV show Scorpion, pilot episode, retorting to Walter after he had had arrogantly limited his success, presuming he had accomplished the best that could be accomplished, stopped trying, reasoned with "Loss is acceptable as long as the resulting gain is large enough."



"Spaceships for everybody." - Digit



"Hate the sin, love the sinner." - paraphrased translation of translation of Yeshua of Nazareth, and doubtless a sentiment of many others before him.



"Free software is the first step to liberating cyberspace. (And so, might pedagogyware be the second?" - Richard Matthew Stallman (& Digit)



"Beware the name changers." - ... iunno... George Orwell? Seems maybe too direct for Orwell to say that so directly and suscinctly. ... though that is a large chunk of his general thrust, certainly at least in his book "1984", and it's in the same way as in the book that I think of when I evoke this sentiment.



"They lie." - ~



"Prohibition does not work. Prohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse." - Digit



""Conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist" are terms used to disuade scrutiny." - Digit



"Man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for." - Robert Browning



"they're already scared stupid. aproach them gently, with amnesty and offer of greater riches through synergy and mutual freedom." - Digit



"It's easy to be an angel in heaven" - unknown



"A no vote is a vote for ''any tyrant will do''" - Digit ("... so spoil your ballot to protest")



"''neo liberal'' is neither new nor liberal. ''neo liberal'' = same old fascist." - Digit



"''neo liberal'' is is orwellian newspeak, neither new (neo) nor liberal. ''neo liberal'' = same old fascist." - Digit



"" - Digit