The Bodega at the End of the Internet
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
The Bodega at the End of the Internet
our political discourse has become so flat. For example, we can’t even talk about working-class people anymore. When did everybody become “middle class”? And even those of us who might objectively be “middle class” can still identify with the working class. There’s something wrong with the fact that we can not talk about the working class.
Angela Y. Davis • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell • 1984
Pessimism drifts in the air like a virulent pathogen, infecting multitudes.
Jon Krakauer • Embrace the Misery
Blake believes that the sublime arises from a sensual scrutiny so intense that it penetrates to an unbounded energy at the heart of distinct forms.
Eric G. Wilson • Against Happiness
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ernest Hemingway • The Old Man and the Sea
DOWN WITH THE MAN (AND MADISON AVENUE): SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE HEDONIC TREADMILL
Edward Slingerland • Trying Not to Try
This can’t be the purpose of our species, to constantly identify each other as “other,” build walls between us, and engage in both formal and informal wars against each other’s bodies.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering