Kylee Schmuck
@brokenhips
Kylee Schmuck
6. One of the clearest signs of intelligence is being able to hear an opinion you disagree with and not act emotionally
Dialectic: dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument.
Examples: I am strong AND vulnerable
"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
... See more“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
And thus a majority of Serbs living in Serbia or abroad maintained right to the end of the Serb siege of Sarajevo, and even after, that the Bosnians themselves perpetrated the horrific “breadline massacre” in May 1992 and “market massacre” in February 1994, lobbing large-caliber shells into the center of their capital or planting mines in order to
... See moreSusan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
The destructiveness of war—short of total destruction, which is not war but suicide—is not in itself an argument against waging war unless one thinks (as few people actually do think) that violence is always unjustifiable, that force is always and in all circumstances wrong—wrong because, as Simone Weil affirms in her sublime essay on war, “The
... See moreSusan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.
Susan Sontag • Regarding the Pain of Others
Our failure is one of imagination, of empathy: we have failed to hold this reality in mind.