culture
asteriskmag.com • Manufacturing Bliss
Freya India • Rejecting The Machine
And if people aren’t posting, people don’t bother to ask, because it doesn’t cross our mind to. What is real is what is posted, and this is what we think about. Anything outside of this awareness of what we construe as reality is left to the wayside, maybe for the worse. In this case, definitely.
Amanda Fortini • How Vanilla Became Shorthand for Bland
On the richness and complexity of real vanilla. Vanilla is not vanilla.
asteriskmag.com • Manufacturing Bliss
“Cerebral hedonism”
Celine Nguyen • In Defense of San Francisco
Michael Huemer • Who Cares About Diversity?
Omar F. Najjarine • Why modern life feels meaningless
Yes. I think my detachment from my health has been downstream of a lack of meaning in my life.
Henry Oliver • Notes Towards an Applied Literature
But the reality is, our thoughts are almost entirely drawn from the soup in our culture of thoughts that people have had before. And all we’re doing is repeating them. We think we’re... See more
David Chapman • Myth, adult developmental stages, and entrepreneurship
I’ve said this many times before. Most people don’t actually know what thinking is. Instead they have thoughts. Thoughts occur to them. What David adds here is the perspective of where thoughts come from, which is basically our environment, our culture, all of our conditioning. Everything is a remix, as Visa likes to say. What does recognizing this do for us?