The Constructive Fever
Philosophy becomes a kind of necessary virus, which causes a constructive fever in others, compelling them to be and to do more than just survive. It is not there to appease or to make people feel better; it is there to provoke a constant restlessness of being.
–excerpt from What Makes A Philosopher? by Siobhan Lyons
This photo and caption comes from the front page of this mornings edition of the New York Times. This world and this life, my life –affords many conundrums to be more and do more than just survive.
On one recent night at the jail, in Dorm 5, the air was thick and putrid with the sweat of 518 men crowded into a space meant for 170.
