The mythware

If one were to compare a human to a computer,
the body would be the hardware and the mind the software,
but what about the soul—the mythware? (Like a unicorn
that was added to the user manual because marketing thought
there should be magic under the hood.)


More words to ponder at maciejmodzelewski.com

Joy to the world

Nothing heralds the arrival of the month of forced joy better
than binge-watching Hallmark Christmas flicks—only slightly
toned down by a reserved immersion in Russell and Hitchens
during the commercials—with all the remarkably irrelevant
characters in the spectacle of self-inflicted sorrow that some
call the holidays. After all, even a die-hard atheist like myself
deserves his guilty pleasures.