Anupama Dhareshwar
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Anupama Dhareshwar
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We’re definitely in a big reordering of what’s in-group and out-group. There’s a funny energy where many powerful people are revealing themselves to have had no actual convictions in the past, or simply that their convictions just mirror whatever’s convenient for their power and self-interest. And you know, we’re in a moment where that’s being
... See morewhat if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comWhen I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis.
Which is unfortunate, because our relationships to our smartphones are far from healthy. The mediascape is becoming a stormy sea of anxiety, envy, delusion, and rage. Our attention is being redirected in surprising and often worrying ways. The... See more
Which is unfortunate, because our relationships to our smartphones are far from healthy. The mediascape is becoming a stormy sea of anxiety, envy, delusion, and rage. Our attention is being redirected in surprising and often worrying ways. The... See more
Daniel Immerwahr • The Attention Crisis Is Just a Distraction | The New Yorker
The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail
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Steve Jobs a year before his death
But here's what troubles me about this whole arrangement: we know belief isn't built on truth. It's built on repetition .