dorian minors

dorian minors

i was a soldier for a bit,
and a clinician for a bit,
now i mostly do brain science,
with some teaching and consulting
among other projects.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines-the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by

Sister Carlotta

here's a list of mine:

betterment

- half awake

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our rafts are checked… the human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use... only very exceptional individuals push to their extremes.

William James, The Energies of Men

A wise man once said we exist in a bizarre combination of stone age emotions, medieval beliefs, God-like technology many people can reach

Bliss n Eso on E. O. Wilson, Weightless Wings

gratification

- the nuance in the hierarchy

Let me tell you something, brother. The notes are right underneath your fingers, baby. You just gotta take the time out to play the right notes.

Ray Charles

connection

- on attraction and love

- the loneliness epidemic

We are all so curiously alone, that's why it's important to make signals through the glass."

Marina, So Much To Tell You

thought architecture

- amusing ourselves to death

- the new democracy

You can't allus have things like they are in poetry. Poetry ain't what you'd call truth. There ain't enough room in the verses.

Singer's commentary, The Ballad of Sam Bass

...an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house

Henri Poincaré, Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics

spiritual architecture

- abstractions as gods

- female zealots

- value of the sacred

If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy, I can only conclude that I, I was not made for here.

Brooke Fraser on C.S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis Song

digital architecture

- digital architecture

the human mind, the last analogue device in a digital world.

Dr. Ford

They are flesh made into automata. Without self, they have nothing to esteem or even doubt. They are bred only to obey their masters.

Lady Janet, Heretics of Dune

somatic architecture

- predicting human behaviour

- eating well

- on emotion

the halt, the lame, half-made creatures that we are

Robert K. Greanleaf, Servant Leadership

wealth architecture

- from zero

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

collective architecture

- successful prophets

- true family ties

There’s always a prevailing mystique in any civilization. It builds itself as a barrier against change.

Leto

Not integrated yet. Find them here.

Hoc opus, hic labor est

Prophet, Aeneid

Berthe Morisot Bath at Mesnil

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Thelonous Sphere Monk: "the piano ain't got no wrong notes"

Malcolm X: "everything that’s due...everything.”

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

Cicero, Letter to Brutus

Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Slaying Holofernes

Human beings say, 'It never rains but it pours.' This is not very apt, for it frequently rains without pouring. The rabbit's proverb is better expressed. They say 'one cloud feels lonely': and indeed it is true that the appearance of a single cloud often means that the sky will soon be overcast.

Watership Down