January 2012
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...but not yet
I am a first-world, able-bodied, happily-married, white male, not young, not old, securely employed with benefits. I take pleasure in the finer things: movies, literature, music, eating out, information at my fingertips, a home I can call my own. And every once in awhile I feel nauseous. The Marxist has bled out of me and with it, all youthful idealism. Yet there remains leftover a stubborn...
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My Greenberg Review
[a review I feel like reposting as my love for this film singles me out better perhaps than anything else I care to write about film, considering how few share my opinion]
5/5
More than just a known commodity, the films of Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, and now,Greenberg) are an acquired taste. They capture with startling candor life...
“We are two abysses – a well staring at the sky.”
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via vertere)
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WatchI am ready for my next dose of Greta Gerwig. Give it.
gretagerwig:
Official trailer of The Dish and The Spoon. Looks Amazing.
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Ethics as Idea-in-Flux
[a repost before I had followers]
Is an ideology an ideology outside of the times you point at it? No, but the habit of being locked-in when pointed to makes it so. The idea-in-flux is not an ideology. Ethics, as I mean it, is an idea-in-flux. It is about ideas, yes, but given meaning from indwelling. As we change, so does the substance of our ethics. Without specificity one can talk of decency...
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On the Brink
Something is happening on the periphery of our lives. Listen closely and you’ll hear the splintering sound of history as it gives way beneath a generation of neglect. So long as we stay perfectly still in our homes, and keep on the same route to work and schedule meetings for future dates, maybe we can fool history into forgetting. There is an unshakable calm on the brink, the trickle down...
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Quantum physics says goodbye to reality →
thequantumlife:
Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra “hidden variables”. Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that...
