Noah Blue
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philosophy

Ideas with consequences. Writing that takes argument seriously and follows it wherever it leads.

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Llama-spit aphorisms
Aphorisms

Llama-spit aphorisms

Duck

Noah Blue · 2 min read

Pithiness is essential now. Any writer who demands more than a micro moment of attention is destined to be disappointed.

lonelinessparentingai
In memory of my grandma
Aphorisms

In memory of my grandma

#gefilte fish

Noah Blue · 2 min read

I would like to apologise. Not only for the things I have allegedly done but also the things I will almost certainly be accused of doing in the future.

foucaultphilosophynarcissism
Bedtime aphorisms
Aphorisms

Bedtime aphorisms

Snoozy

Noah Blue · 1 min read

Kant or Nietzsche? The interview question I invariably lead with. There is no more efficient way to elicit the true nature of a candidate.

philosophylanguagewriting
Fried-egg aphorisms
Aphorisms

Fried-egg aphorisms

Sunny side up

Noah Blue · 2 min read

If I am reincarnated as a colour, I’d like to be blue. Failing that, orange. If I were to come back as white, I’d top myself.

loveanxietyphilosophy
I would if I could but I can’t
Aphorisms

I would if I could but I can’t

Breakfast aphorisms

Noah Blue · 2 min read

When I say I am going to do something, in all seriousness I mean to do it. But I never do, of course. If I did, who knows what might happen.

fearwritingphilosophy
Jumping-bean aphorisms
Aphorisms

Jumping-bean aphorisms

Kinetic

Noah Blue · 2 min read

Being a parent reveals the schism between who you are and who you have to be.

spiritualitynihilismphilosophy
Extreme close-up of a deeply wrinkled elderly face, eyes small and weathered, brow furrowed
Aphorisms

Thoughts that came to me sitting on the toilet

#constipation

Noah Blue · 2 min read

A so-called great work of literature or philosophy is but the fruit body of a subterranean organism that subsists on the putrescence of other organisms.

mushroomscioranmessiah
Two close-up eyes with vivid red irises against a black-and-white face, unsettling and intense
Aphorisms

Some things I thought once upon a time

Must do better

Noah Blue · 3 min read

Language comes, ultimately, from the desire of consciousness to classify its contents. What consciousness didn't bargain for was the way in which language would come to colonise those contents, to mould them into an ontological prerogative.

consciousnessphilosophy
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