Antipodes, dopamine, death and nothingness, fashion, Aldous Huxley, and smoking

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The antipodes of feeling the bizarre, privileged moment, and the futile, despairing moment. (dopamine excess?)

The squandered life is justified in so many ways.

Fear of death is not fear of 'nothingness', for we do not fear the nothingness prior to birth. Fear of death is an emergent property of nothingness and the future.

Fashion changeover is a creation of the producers, not consumers.

Aldous Huxley, from Island: 'I' affirms a separate and abiding me substance; 'am' denies the fact that all existence is relationship and change.

Smoking increases the 'I', as it is an interface between man and the world. Smoking concludes individual existence with each inhalation.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.