9 degrees North latitude

1. The natural process of evolution forms increasingly stable collectives through progressive subjugation of the individual. The moral order scouts ahead of the legal order, regulating the frontiers of behavior.

2. Is the quest for power the fundamental mandate of the masculine?

3. The inclination to exhibit oneself on the Internet is often a particular embodiment of the question: do I exist? But the hollow cries returned by others are reminders of the unanswerable nature of this question, which must instead be recognized and the question dismissed as such. Only then can one log off.

4. The unintegrated feminine appears as a controlling force to be resented and reviled; the integrated feminine is an inimitable aesthetic sense that springs ever towards beauty.

5. Anxiety is a kind of partial awareness, where a thing is banished to the gloomy periphery of the mind because one cannot bear to fully know its naked form.

6. Interest in truth, structure, and order is as often derived from a sense of material or emotional insecurity as it is from curiosity.

7. What is the way? Is it simply the abandonment of resistance to all internal and external phenomena? Is it the pursuit of some greater ability—some form of control? Is it submission to, or the channeling of, some force or order? Does it free or bind? Both?