Impermanence is not insignificance
July 19, 2023 at 6:51 PM
Impermanence is not insignificance
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
October 1, 2026 at 7:40 PM
In all honesty, I've always found my insignificance greatly reassuring.
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
September 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In all honesty, I've always found my insignificance greatly reassuring.
floating from obscurity
to insignificance…
full steam ahead
#vssdaily (11/30 obscure)
#haiku #poetry
#lake #steam #nature
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: mine
to insignificance…
full steam ahead
#vssdaily (11/30 obscure)
#haiku #poetry
#lake #steam #nature
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: mine
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
floating from obscurity
to insignificance…
full steam ahead
#vssdaily (11/30 obscure)
#haiku #poetry
#lake #steam #nature
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: mine
to insignificance…
full steam ahead
#vssdaily (11/30 obscure)
#haiku #poetry
#lake #steam #nature
#eastcoastkin
#photography
photo: mine
"80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on - who are afraid of death and insignificance."
He diplomatically left out one word. 😆
He diplomatically left out one word. 😆
September 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on - who are afraid of death and insignificance."
He diplomatically left out one word. 😆
He diplomatically left out one word. 😆
The former president called out aging world leaders “who are afraid of death and insignificance.”
Obama Trolls Old Men Who Put Their Name on Everything
The former president called out aging world leaders “who are afraid of death and insignificance.”
trib.al
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The former president called out aging world leaders “who are afraid of death and insignificance.”
Vote Reform for mob rule, drunk thugs terrorising communities, book burning, Kristallnacht and a dystopian future that makes Nazi Germany pale into insignificance.
September 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Vote Reform for mob rule, drunk thugs terrorising communities, book burning, Kristallnacht and a dystopian future that makes Nazi Germany pale into insignificance.
Do NOT click on @nytimes.com content. Starve them into insignificance.
The NYT is a troll farm run by joyless fail upward chelsea brunchlords who raise their children by cell phone
August 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Do NOT click on @nytimes.com content. Starve them into insignificance.
Brexit means insignificance, impoverishment, and isolation.
Let’s Breturn pronto.
Let’s Breturn pronto.
February 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Brexit means insignificance, impoverishment, and isolation.
Let’s Breturn pronto.
Let’s Breturn pronto.
I stand within my insignificance
Cognizant of my lack of influence
Saddened by humankind's indifference
Awaiting that moment of consequence
#Wordsmith #JustWords
Cognizant of my lack of influence
Saddened by humankind's indifference
Awaiting that moment of consequence
#Wordsmith #JustWords
September 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I stand within my insignificance
Cognizant of my lack of influence
Saddened by humankind's indifference
Awaiting that moment of consequence
#Wordsmith #JustWords
Cognizant of my lack of influence
Saddened by humankind's indifference
Awaiting that moment of consequence
#Wordsmith #JustWords
Nicolas Roeg (with scenes from his film "Insignificance") - BOTD
August 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Nicolas Roeg (with scenes from his film "Insignificance") - BOTD
Really like that things feel slow-growing here; it's not an instant hit followed by instant insignificance.
December 4, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Really like that things feel slow-growing here; it's not an instant hit followed by instant insignificance.
Everything else pails into insignificance
June 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Everything else pails into insignificance
OH NO! Christians have built an absolutely enormous building to fill me, a medieval peasant, with a sense of dread, majesty, awe and insignificance.
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
OH NO! Christians have built an absolutely enormous building to fill me, a medieval peasant, with a sense of dread, majesty, awe and insignificance.
I think the loss of a toll bridge in Bristol pales into insignificance compared to this.
November 14, 2024 at 10:52 PM
I think the loss of a toll bridge in Bristol pales into insignificance compared to this.
Theresa Russell in "Insignificance" - BOTD
March 20, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Theresa Russell in "Insignificance" - BOTD
When Twitter spirals into insignificance, Musk will blame everyone except himself.
It will be some imaginary mind-virus.
The truth: we don’t like being manipulated!
It will be some imaginary mind-virus.
The truth: we don’t like being manipulated!
November 17, 2024 at 10:32 AM
When Twitter spirals into insignificance, Musk will blame everyone except himself.
It will be some imaginary mind-virus.
The truth: we don’t like being manipulated!
It will be some imaginary mind-virus.
The truth: we don’t like being manipulated!
"Existential dread... my insignificance, *mankind's* insignificance in the face of the endless void..."
"Haha, did you see any Klingons up there? So random LOL"
"Haha, did you see any Klingons up there? So random LOL"
April 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Existential dread... my insignificance, *mankind's* insignificance in the face of the endless void..."
"Haha, did you see any Klingons up there? So random LOL"
"Haha, did you see any Klingons up there? So random LOL"
Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance gizmodo.com/deepest-ever...
Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance
Astronomers have constructed one of the most detailed images yet of Abell 3667, a giant galaxy cluster about 700 million light-years away from Earth.
gizmodo.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance gizmodo.com/deepest-ever...
Pale into insignificance
December 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Pale into insignificance
“80% of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on, who are afraid of death and insignificance and they won’t let go…” ~ @barackobama.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“80% of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on, who are afraid of death and insignificance and they won’t let go…” ~ @barackobama.bsky.social
Obama: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything.
September 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Obama: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything.