Thought provoking
You’re not separate from your potential
n the 1960s and ‘70s, some literacy theorists, among them Eric Havelock and Jack Goody, argued that it was writing that gave humans the capacity forabstract thought.
Kit Wilson • Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -Kurt Vonnegut
We may believe that all this text somehow captures reality. But as the words engulf us, the world recedes ever more from our grasp.
Kit Wilson • Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
Either tap water is intelligent, or our intelligent tests are silly. Link to full video below.
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Stated Clearly - Jon Perryx.com
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all. I felt as if this pain would never be appeased, that it had me in its grip for ever, that it would prevent me from devoting myself to anything else, and that I was allowing it to do so. I think that that is wha... See more