Crises
In Lauren Oyler’s essay about anxiety last week, she referenced a late 19th century diagnosis known as Americanitis , which described “the high-strung, nervous, active temperament of the American people.” Whether incited by advances in technology (causing loss of sleep, excessive worry) or capitalism (causing long work days, fast pace of life), the... See more
Haley Nahman • #172: Trick questions
What feels like a rallying movement is really a cover for fear, which can then start spreading over the landscape and seeping into the fault lines of our country
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only unskilled hands doing scientific work, cogs in a whole their minds are quite incapable of embracing.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light
... See moreOur professional and technological capabilities have been increasing exponentially, but our ability to use them wisely has not. We are building vast, complex civilizations, but that very complexity is in danger of overwhelming us, creating huge and unintended consequences for the planet and all those that inhabit it.
Christine Wamsler • What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis
We can manage what we cannot measure: we do it every day.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
Truth is in what is—and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware. We see that our living, our action, is always within the field of destruction, within the field of sorrow; like a... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
we need look no further than the most recent financial crisis for evidence of how poorly we manage what we believe we can measure.