My Website

zenosox.com is an attempt to bring together my somewhat disperate presence on the web. No attempt is made to create a truely clear picture, because one does not exist. I do believe in links. This is an attempt to add to the world of links. If you find anything of interest here, thanks. If you don't, move on with all deliberate speed. As I have said elsewhere: "Truths are the lies we agree to recite to each other." These are my truths and lies, they need not be yours.

I paint. Though I call myself an artist, I am not and do not want to be part of the art world. I am willing to sell my art, but I do not want to be a professional artist.

I think. Though I call myself a thinker, I am not and do not want to be part of the intellectual world. I am willing to share my thoughts, but I do not want to be a professional thinker.

I am. I do want to be part of the world, but I don't want to be a professional. The costs of professionalism are too great for the world to absorb.

History cannot teach us anything. It doesn't exist. It used to be. It is no more. We however can learn much from history, or more properly from thinking historically. The usefulness comes not from the events themselves, but from our understanding and appreciation of the structure and reality of their occurence.

"Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information."

Martin Heidegger

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better."

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

Samuel Beckett

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

Noam Chomsky