Like everyone else, I go through cycles of interest and boredom driven by random daily events, and lately philosophizing on esoteric and ultimately meaningless nuances of life and death just isn’t on the agenda.

This project often serves as an outlet for serious thinking, but not so much this entry. I just want to read and think in the quiet, and forget everything outside this white and snowy window.

We’re apes. We think we’re all sophisticated with our toaster ovens and designer footwear, but we’re just a bunch of finely ornamented apes. And because we are apes, we instinctually measure ourselves against others and vie for status. The question is not whether we evaluate ourselves against others; rather, the question is by what standard do we measure ourselves?