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Why are wonderful writers sometimes such dull conversationalists? Blame it on the brain.
Hazlitt, that most self-conscious of writers, remarked that he did not see why an author “is bound to talk, any more than he is bound to dance, or ride, or fence better than other people. Reading, study, silence, thought are a bad introduction to loquacity.”
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After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen designed a gun that captures, freezes and fires her own tears – recently on display as part of Dutch Design Week. I'm not sure about the practicalities of this in an actual warzone, but I sure do like the brassy steampunk-minimalism design of the thing.
This happens in three stages. The user first puts on a mask with a silicon cup that catches the tears. The tears are frozen in a bottle, which is then loaded onto the gun – allowing the frozen tears to be fired.
The divergence of democracy and capital will defy reason and politics will become brutal survivalism.
Language has been dislocated. The content is in the form and the form is beyond, or in excess of, the content.
We are now led to believe that mediation is no longer necessary.
This explains the growing anti-humanist stance that now goes hand in hand with a general contempt for democracy. Calling this phase of our history fascist might be misleading unless by fascism we mean the normalisation of a social state of warfare.
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.
Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue. In the case of ignorance about tobacco and climate change, a scientifically illiterate society will probably be more susceptible to the tactics used by those wishing to confuse and cloud the truth.
In 2001, when I was about 14 years old, my male friends invented a game that went like this: one of them—and it was always the same one—would sneak behind me, slap me—and it was always me—on the ass and run away as I sputtered, angry and humiliated.
But it’s the bad women who have always, however grotesquely, provided the limited examples of female resistance: Salome, demanding the head of John the Baptist; Medea punishing her husband’s betrayal with infanticide; Flannery O’Connor’s Hulga, who knew her birth name Joy was all wrong because it was light and airy and she wanted to be dense and ugly, like a swamp; Toni Morrison’s Sula, whose destructive joie de vivre led her to trample on the moral codes of others; the heroines of Ferrante, often cruel and spiteful because they’re too smart for the men who anchor them to the miserable world that they created. All of the women terrible in someway or another—but also strikingly bold in their effrontery.
Two celebrities had an email exchange about race that seemed polite but was loaded with subtext. When the exchange became public, the conversation about who was wrong looked frustratingly familiar.
same encounter having had a completely different, far more frustrating experience. That's because Swinton and Cho weren't having the same conversation. What I think Swinton wanted from Cho was some kind of exculpation. What Cho wanted was for Swinton to "get it."
Eleven’s sass is a gift
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In the age of Trump and online conspiracy theories, one woman’s journey to belief.
I like articles like these because they illustrate, through analogy of one person’s struggles, how deep the issues of miscommunication of needs, mismanagement of the flow of personal suffering, and the snow-blindness in the upper echelons of society turn into the perfect storm of sad rhetoric of this caliber. I especially take respite in seeing that all people with every diverse opinion have at some point felt their suffering was deemed incredible by someone - or some entity - that ostensibly possessed power to change, alleviate, or de-escalate their circumstances.
Are people really busy than they used to be? Or is it all about perception? The rise of shadow work has exhausted us, and it's high time we recognize it.
As author and professor Dr. Craig Lambert explains, we all increasingly “find ourselves doing a stack of jobs we never volunteered for, chores that showed up in our lives below the scan of awareness.” Lambert calls these tasks “shadow work” and in his book of the same name, he describes this labor as “all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations.”
You perform shadow work whenever you do jobs that used to be done by a paid employee, but have now been outsourced to the consumer: pumping gas, booking a travel itinerary, bussing a table, and so on. We likewise do shadow work whenever we bank online or use an ATM instead of a teller, check-in to flights or a hotel using a kiosk rather than a human, and wait on hold for an hour to talk to a scarce customer service representative. When we can’t find a knowledgeable salesman to talk to and get a recommendation from at a big box store, and instead must take over his job and shop online, spending hours comparing model features and reading reviews, we’re doing shadow work then too. When we follow through on these online transactions, entering in our credit card number and address for the umpteenth thousandth time, we do yet more shadow work — this time as DIY cashiers.
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I don’t get out much — and it’s not because I’m boring or don’t have a sense of adventure or don’t care about learning about the larger world: It’s because I’m broke.
I’m not saying travel can't be lovely and educational; it certainly can be. I’m also not claiming there aren’t less expensive ways to get from place to place; there undoubtedly are.
What I am saying, though, is that travel is complicated and it is often dependent on a certain amount of privilege.
I don’t get out much — and it’s not because I’m boring or don’t have a sense of adventure or don’t care about learning about the larger world: It’s because I’m broke.
And when you hold travel up on some kind of pedestal, you sound classist as hell, and I wish you would stop that.
An interesting - though somewhat scathing and envious - take on tourism versus immersive travel. I relate in that I’m poor, and feel personally bolder than the average traveler to bravely bumble my way into trouble with exasperated locals. However, I’m a big proponent in context development, and thus ardently believe in the importance of having everyone occasionally disrespecting their own personal comfort zones: and sometimes just leaving their familiar surroundings is a good first step. Though some might not be able to really grasp the complex pathos within their new, temporary environments - the fact that they made the effort to be physically present - that is, to impact a native’s life simply by existing within the same space (negatively or non), is categorically a small, budding globalized awareness occurring.
could we not
I just feel like, with things like credit, and phrases such as “buyer’s remorse,” we now live to look forward to having hindsight bias, which ironically inspires us to make some long-term damaging decisions.
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