provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.
- Charles Horton Cooley
botharetrue.substack.com • i am who i think you think i am
Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
A quote from Dune
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more
Jeanette Winterson • Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
–Chuck Palahniuk
reminds me of the charles broskoski quote that goes something like... and when nobody waits for you at night, and when nobody calls you in the morning - do you call that freedom or loneliness?
It’s almost impossible to safely drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Only seeing where you’ve been is a terrible way to figure out where to go.
But it’s really unsafe to go forward with no idea of what came before.
But it’s really unsafe to go forward with no idea of what came before.
