A Fulltiming Life

Friday, December 11, 2009 - Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM

Sunrise, Site 42, Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM, December 11, 2009
Sunrise, Site 42, Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM, December 11, 2009

Ah! to awaken to a gorgeous sunrise, the sweet smell of crude on the breeze, the gentle sound of a make-or-break pipeline pumping engine thump...thump....thump thump......thumping in the background - 'tis comfort food to the fulltimer rolling into a peak oil future.

Night camp

Site 42 - Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM

Sincerity Itself is Bullshit

As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgement that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial - notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt, pg 66

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