Alex's Butt Blogging

It’s an option! It’s not like you have to do it! Although a friend of mine was playing it recently and he said, ‘You do come on quite strong, Adam.’

Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s actually homophobia. I don’t expect poor people to prove to me, a Harvard grad, that hunger and poverty are widespread problems. And if someone asked me, as an Asian person, to “prove” to them that racism exists, I would laugh all the way back to Chinatown. Marginalized groups are not responsible for explaining their marginalization to you. If you are actually concerned, you would take the initiative to do some research yourself instead of showing up at some oppressed group’s door step demanding a list of citations for things (racism, sexism, etc.) that are proven time and time again in the real world.

We’re all a little broken. We’re all a little twisted. We’re all less than we could be or want to be.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath.