Sentimental

It's four-thirty in the morning and I'm feeling sentimental. This is not a state of mind I like. Here I am wishing I could have brought Billie Holiday and Alice Coltrane together. Wanting to give kozizi a kocaman hug as per the quiz she posted. Wondering how madamedisgrace is getting on. Wanting to go to America just to say Hi to entr00pi. Worrying that I'm not taking enough of an interest in my students. Wanting my LJ friends to sympathise with me. Wanting to apologise to whoever I dissed on philosophy.

No, scratch the last one. Lumpen-Nietzscheans need to learn the hard way.

Solri's lamentable tendency toward physical violence

Whenever I read Internet posts by wannabe Nietzscheans, neo-Nazis, Ayn Rand fetishists, the two people who voted for George Bush and so on about how the weak are a drain on the strong, free competition is the only way forward, aid to developing countries is immoral, and in general "I'm good and deserve to survive because I have good genes and a high credit rating", I just want to say -

"OK, if you're so fit to survive, let's test it. I bet your kneecaps break as easily as any of those welfare bums'."