Saturday, March 12, 2005

philosophical spam

This was the text content of an email spamming with an ad for prescription drugs. I don't know what text generation program creates these, and what algorithms it uses, but the juxtaposition of spam and auto-generated philosophical texts is a curious phenonmena:

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

the addressee's also have great names: sprawl t jolene, dare c. address, directly m. fopping