Diary (May 1, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday May 1, 2020.

Diary

My contempt for Alan Watts and Siddhartha Gautama

Alan Watts had good ideas but led a chaotic dissolute life marked by bitter ex-wives and abandoned children and alcohol abuse.

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, likewise abandoned his son to indulge personal gratification, and in consequence is at the top of my shit list.

• Comment @ Boing Boing

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)