Musings of an Introvert

Kevin - Violinist . Wanderer . Dreamer

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2.25.16

Even the most peaceful of human lives depend on an integral narcissistic slippage. We desire children, we desire images, we desire the multiplicitious production of ourselves again and again, we desire ourselves, always ourselves.

The world becomes a mirror. If, instead, it were a photograph — if every life were lived for the you and not the I — then, there might be hope. And even as I write this I see the words themselves become small mirrors, reflecting and refracting back my image everywhere. The hope dissipates almost instantly.

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#paris #trees #path #blackandwhite #travelnoire #versailles #trianon #history (at Château de Versailles)

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My mood

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She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch - it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen - and what she imagined there was to watch on TV appalled her; she had of course, only read about it. She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time-a childish self-indulgence, even messier than finger painting - but she admired reading, which she believed was an unselfish activity that provided information and inspiration.

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We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942 (via whyallcaps)

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Pour une Ame Souveraine "You want to travel with her. You want to travel blind" Meshell Ndegeocello - "Suzanne" Live at SummerStage

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"Charles Mills, a philosopher of race, has a term which I think applies here: epistemology of white ignorance. By this means, he means that white people have created a whole way of knowing the world that both demands and allows that they remain oblivious to the operations of white supremacy, that white people remain “intent on denying what is before them.” Thus even though three gangs have now attacked each other in broad daylight and killed or injured 27 people, there is no nagging, gnawing sense of fear, no social anxiety about what the world is coming to, no anger at the thugs who made it unsafe for American families to go about their regular daily activities without fear of being clipped by a stray bullet, no posturing from law enforcement about the necessity of using military weapons to put down the lawless band of criminals that turned a parking lot into a war zone in broad daylight. More than that, there is no sense of white shame, no hanging of the head over the members of their race that have been out in the world representing everything that is wrong with America."

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/20/white_americas_waco_insanity_the_shocking_realities_it_ignores_about_racism_violence/

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"Cuz you paid $10 to get in the ball." Azealia Banks performing 'Fierce' live at Irving Plaza

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Azealia Banks - Live at Irving Plaza

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A smile. A guise Nighttime is mine, and my eyes are wide at night

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Paintings by Valerio D’Ospina

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Artworks by Boris Pelcer

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There's no such thing as free will. Every person is caught in an unbroken chain of causality going back to the very beginning of time. Your entire life has been shaped and will be shaped by things that are beyond your conscious control—big things, like who your parents are, where you were born, your health, the state of the real estate market. But little things too; if you meditate on it for a while, you will find that even such straightforward decisions that you appear to make, say, whether to eat cereal or toast for breakfast, you don't really "make" at all.

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Sing, munks. Sing! Real Cartuja de Villdemossa #music #manuscript #score #composition #composer #notation #church #Spain #travel #Mallorca #monastery #priest #catholic

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Children are not that gullible, which makes indoctrination even more odious

In short, when children are taught creationism by their parents and teachers, they accept it because this is the rational thing to do. Even the most committed skeptic cannot check everything out first hand. We all gain much of our knowledge from reliable others, and for most of us parents and teachers are the most reliable others we will ever know. It would be insane to trust them on everything except religion when religion is presented as true in the same way as all other knowledge taught at home or school. Of course the children believe you. That’s what you’re for. When you use that fact to make children believe things for which there is insufficient evidence, you are abusing your power and abusing their trust.

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Le Seu Cathedral