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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

If It’s the Thought That Counts, Then It’s Always Preseason

In this age of relentless people pleasin’
the merest exercise of reason
is always a form of treason

Other works by Chris Gaither...
We Are All Implicated

My wife fixed me with a stare that said Really, what haven’t you done for…
Satisfaction Killed the Cat; Desire Brought It Back

I can’t get no satisfaction except self-satisfaction and I pity the fool who would want that
Where God Is All Knowing, AI’s a Know-It-All

My corner of the internet may be infinitesimally small Not even a grain in a brick in the wall Yet still I’m a part
We Have an Arranged Marriage

Some people have baggage; I come with furniture Fortunately, my wife enjoys rearranging
“The more dehumanizing you make the tech, the more money you make”

Cyberspace is an unmaker’s space where we make the tech to unmake the people to make the money And though you can prepare
The Internet Is Our Blindfold and American Spirit Is Our Cigarette

To be an apparatchik In our collective dissolution of… It matters not Which side you take Just as long as you remain
To Cover All of Your Bases, Trade Your Castles in for Yachts

A rising tide lifts all boats But a rising sea floods all moats
The Supreme Feat of Survival

For the antisemite the Jews’ most galling offense is the audacity of their survival, decoding the latest antisemitic sl… the smear of “Jewish Supremacy”-
Only Desire Overcomes Instinct

You may think that the unconscious Is there to protect you from seein… How the sausage is made Because if you knew You wouldn’t want to eat it
“All of it. It’s all true.”

When I asked Permission to come aboard The ship of fools They said Everything is permitted
Inside Out

Trump’s genius is his nothingness which allows him to be everything e.g., He’s America’s inside joke (American democracy was a joke lon…
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s First Name Means “Famous Warrior”, His Last Name Means “Stone of Wit”, and, Famously, He Showed Us That Our Real Battle Is Not to Outwit Ourselves

Per Wittgenstein Words only gain meaning through th… And they are always used in the co… Of the game being played in the mo… So, when we use words
“A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing”

Eat, drink And be merry But don’t drink And derive
The Brain Makes Predictions to Control Outcomes

Like many of you All my life I’ve been trying to predict What will happen when The unstoppable force
The New Ontological Proof

Delusions of grandeur about yourse… Are inevitable Delusions of grandeur about God Are impossible Which is how



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