a fist in the face

Say my purpose is to avoid being punched in the face. It's not wrong or bad if I go around punching people in the face. But it may not serve my purpose.

looking forward

Maybe you can't change the past, but you sure as hell can change the future.

towering babble

Language is an agreement among language users about what particular correspondence to choose from an infinity of correspondences between an infinity of meanings and an infinity of meaning-signifiers.

hardwear for life

Life is not a statically reductionist outcome. Life is a dynamically emergent process. But what is the substrate?