The New Romantics
In a culture obsessed with speed, certainty, and specialization, Leonardo’s secret feels almost rebellious: take your time, learn widely, think deeply.
Eric Markowitz • What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Regaining the connection between human and nature, so maybe the instinct of human nature can finally take over.
Do we need to practice being human again?
Karen Rosenkranz • Practicing being human
Two years later, I’m still asked about them. People want to know: Did they stay on the Luddite path? Or were they dragged back into the tech abyss?
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Simone Weil, writing in Oppression and Liberty (published posthumously in 1955):
“Never has the individual been so completely delivered up to a blind collectivity, and never have men been less capable, not only of subordinating their actions to their thoughts, but even of thinking.
L. M. Sacasas • Attending to the World
The scientific virtues are:
- Stupidity
- Arrogance
- Laziness
- Carefreeness
- Beauty
- Rebellion
- Humor
The Scientific Virtues
This is intelligence. Not in the IQ sense, but in the "I know what matters" sense. In the "I know who I am without the algorithm telling me" sense.
Trend is not inherently bad. But when you build your identity around it, you become a vessel for the algorithm—not a creator of your own world.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential. If things inspire real positive emotion in you then they are necessarily things in which you are sufficiently invested that you would feel negative emotions when... See more