Anna B
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Anna B
Each time, I’ve marveled at the logic and ease and length (181 words) of the sentence, the hard clausal steps that slowly mount (or is it descend?) to a grammatically wrong-footing conclusion—the dash’s flat fall where we might have expected a “then…” or “so…” I have wondered about the oddity of Woolf’s metaphors—the sentence is mostly made of
... See moreBrian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
In Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King argue that traditions of Asian wisdom have been subject to colonisation and commodification since the 18th century, producing a highly individualistic spirituality, perfectly accommodated to dominant cultural values and requiring no substantive change in
... See moreRonald Purser • The Mindfulness Conspiracy
ideological thinking insists upon a ‘truer reality’, that is concealed behind the world of perceptible things.
Samantha Rose Hill • Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
And when one submits to the self-compulsion of ideological thinking, one surrenders one’s inner freedom to think.
Samantha Rose Hill • Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
Truth does not belong to anyone; it is the outcome of the scientific exchange of written ideas.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of
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When, in the 1970s, the Sex Pistols sang “There is no future,” there was at least a confrontational relish to it. Now there’s just dread.